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Rowlock; iron, square, with brass washer; smiddy-made [blacksmith], prob. in Flotta.
ID: 1978.005
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Etching - 'Dundas Street, (Stromness), looking North', by A. Cameron, Postmaster - plate.
ID: 1978.006
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Cooper's Burton Driver (English Driver); a wedge-shaped steel shoe, grooved at the bottom, + socketed to take a wooden stock, protected at the top by a broad iron collar.
ID: 1978.007

'Tom-boy'; wooden pin fitted into the gunwale of a yole to support the fishing line when hauling it in; somewhat worn.

ID: 1978.008
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'Six Contribution Cards' Royal Pomona Lodge No 1213 of the National Independent Order of Oddfellows - of J.R. Linkelater, Miller, Tormiston Mill.
ID: 1979.001
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2 postcards meeting notices of the National Independent Order of Oddfellows.
ID: 1979.002
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Pamphlet 'Unveiling of Kitchener Memorial' at Marwick Head, Birsay.
ID: 1979.003
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Three sepia + hand-coloured postards of Orkney mounted together; 'A peaceful evening, calm and eventide, watching the sunset'.
ID: 1979.004
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Screenprint of Stromness Harbour by Hamish Marr.
ID: 1979.005

The 200th (last) edition of the forces newspaper 'THE ORKNEY BLAST'.  Edited by Gerry Meyer who gathered material to amuse and inform the men and women stationed in Orkney during World WarTwo.  

ID: 1979.006