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Embroidery: panel of four dogs in a garden. Framed. Signed 'I. S.' 1952.
ID: A654
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Mangle: 'D. C. Towers, Stromness' cast on the body.
ID: A655
Bronze medal of 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition.
ID: A656
Watercolour painting of Stromness from the Brae of Clouston.
ID: A657

Halkett cloth boat owned by Dr John Rae. Layers of cotton fabric and rubber, copper alloy air valves, canvas fender filled with cork.

ID: A658
Portrait of Dr John Rae (1813 - 1893). Oil on canvas, Portrait inset into an oval shows Rae in old age. Painted by Joseph Sydney Willlis Hodges (1888 - 1900)
ID: A659
Watercolour of the trading schooner 'Maggie' of Stromness, owned by J A Shearer and Son.
ID: A660

Traditionally build vernacular strawbacked chair with unusual carved heart shaped finials at the top uprights of the chair and the arms and supporting stiles are ornamentally carved.

ID: A661

Swahili kit cha enzi or a 'Chair of Power' probably made in Zanzibar or the east coast of Africa during the 19th century.  

ID: A662
Wooden armchair with shaped ornamental headboard. Arms joined to seat by carved uprights and carved legs joined together at floor level by stretchers. Arms curve in slightly towards back of chair.
ID: A663