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Album
Album of watercolours, Studies of Wild Flowers on Hoy, by Isabella Sutherland, 1915, Swartland, Walls. Taught for many years at Kirkwall.
ID: 2011.014
Painting North Ronaldsay Backdrop

Oil painting: backdrop for the North Ronaldsay sheep display in Victorian Gallery at Stromness Museum. Painted by Stanley Cursiter. 1950s.

ID: 2011.015
Painting, SS St Clair

Oil painting: SS St Clair by William Leask (active 1886 - 1899) Built in Glasgow for the North of Scotland, Orkney and Shetland Shipping Company Ltd 1868-1937. 'Signed __ Leask '88

ID: 2011.016
Painting - Norval

Oil painting: Norval. On canvas, unframed, sailing ship.

ID: 2011.017
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Book - 'Mein Weg nach Scapa Flow'
Book. Blue jardback cover, sailing ship on cover. Name on spine: "Mein Weg nach Scapa Flow" by Günther Prien.
ID: 2012.001
Binoculars

Binoculars, brass. Recovered from the wreck of SMS Cöln in Scapa Flow in 1980, prior to ban of recovery of artefacts.

ID: 2012.002
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Carving
Palm leaf stump, carved with a face, with tongue sticking out. Found on the Graemsay shore by Ethel Mowat. Possibly Gulf Stream deposit.
ID: 2013.001
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Board
Laminated board with engraved image of young woman with long hair showing off a ringed finger, high cliffs and a sailing ship in the background.
ID: 2013.002
Mailboat, St Kilda

St Kilda Mailboat. Red box shaped vessel, used as a mailboat from St Kilda which was floated across the sea to be picked up somewhere on the west coast of Orkney. Found on the Birsay shore.

ID: 2013.003
Mailboat, St Kilda

St Kilda Mailboat. Grey Naval vessel, with space in centre for mail. Used as a mailboat from St Kilda which was floated across the sea to be picked up somewhere on the west coast of Orkney.

ID: 2013.004