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Painting on a Mateus Rosé wine bottle of a herring fishing boat by the late Willie Thomson, Neven, N. Ronaldsay.
ID: 1988.023
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Postcard of the front of P.L. Johnston, Tailor, Clothier, Stromness, with staff. Early 1900s. Published by S.P.T. & P.P.C.Coy., Glasgow. The message on the back reads; "31/12/04.
ID: 1988.024
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Commemorative plate, produced for the 40th Stromness Shopping Week Decorated with houses and piers, coat-of-arms and '1949 Stromness Shopping Week 1988', in gold on a deep blue glaze. Terracotta body.
ID: 1988.025
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Photographs of Shopping Week events (in an album).
ID: 1988.026
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Shopping Week Programmes.
ID: 1988.027
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James Sinclair, 1913-1968. An Obituary and an appreciation by H.M. Burkill. Reprinted from the Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore, Vol XXIII, 30th December, 1968.
ID: 1988.028
Oil painting of ship 'Roslin Castle' in a clyclone in the Bay of Bengal, October 1876. Commissioned by Captain Robert 'Jock' Sutherland, master of the ship and grandfather of the donor.
ID: 1988.029
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Log of 'Roslyn Castle' kept by Captain Robert Sutherland, referring to 29 and 'Pembroke Castle' Liverpool-Calcutta 1874.
ID: 1988.03
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Book 'Sailing Directions for East Coasts of England and Scotland etc.' by J. S. Hobbs, F. R. G. S., Hydrographer; 1853;
ID: 1988.033
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Stromness and Harbour, Ordnance Survey 1882.
ID: 1988.038