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50th Birthday Holiday 5: The Waverley

Continuing my series about my holiday in the far west of Scotland around the time of my birthday, with a post about The Waverley, the world’s last seagoing paddle steamer. Features three short videos and a photo gallery.

In my last post in this series about my holiday in the far west of Scotland around the time of my 50th birthday I prepared the way for posts about the paddle steamer Waverley, the world’s last seagoing paddle steamer. This post is about the Waverley itself, before I then post about the voyage.

THE WAVERLEY

The Waverley is a ship with two funnels. The engine can be viewed by the public, and there are detailed displays on board relating to the history of The Waverley and of paddle steamers in general. Paddle steamers were the first kind of steam ship, displacing sailing ships because they were faster, and not being dependent on the wind could steer a more reliable course. Being steam powered they developed around the same time as the first railways (the photographs in this post will show more detail about this), and those railways that served port cities generally ran their own shipping lines so that they could sell all in one tickets covering the train journey and the sea voyage.

VIDEOS

Before the photographs this post features three short videos…

PHOTOGRAPHS

Some photos of and about The Waverley…

Advertising for The Waverley, spotted in Tobermory
A first view of The Waverley from the pier at Tobermory
A small but highly important document – my ticket for the voyage.
A lot of pictures from the display areas inside the ship.
Photos from the engine room (x3)
More from the engine room.
Close ups of the outside view of the paddle (x3)
Another close up of the paddle.
A final farewell to The Waverley before it was lost from sight as we waited to board the ferry back to Kilchoan.

Imaging for the August Auction

A brief account of today at work, with pictures.

INTRODUCTION

I have lots of new pictures, relating to the James and Sons’ August sale (Wednesday 31st). Today’s imaging has involved two types of item…

MILITARIA

You will notice that one item that has been included with militaria is actually not so, but most of these items do count as militaria…

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Lot 197

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Lot 198

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Lot 199

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Lot 200

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Close-ups of both sides of the medallion

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Even closer-up of the ‘heads’ side

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Even-closer up of the ‘tails side’

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The non-military item.

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close-up of the heads side

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close-upf of the tails side.

202
Lot 202

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The cover of lot 202

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Lot 203

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close-up of the medal faces

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even closer-up of the obverse

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even closer-up of the reverse

Now it is time to move on to the other auction items I had to image…

EPHEMERA/ BOOKS

This section starts with lot 361, which can be thought of as an anatomisation of a rolls-royce…

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Lot 361

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361 – section 1-b

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361 – section 1-c

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361 section 2-a

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361 section 2-a

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361 section 3a

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361 – section 3b

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361 section 3c

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Section 4a

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Section 4b

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Section 5a

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Section 5b

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361 chamber of horrors

The rest of the items were not quite this impressive, but there were a few other good moments…

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Lot 362

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362-a – this mag still has it’s fold out poster (highly unusual)

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366

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366-a (again still has it’s fold out poster)

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Lot 372 – a box full of old calendars – I chose to showcase this one.

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From the very early history of cricket

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England recorded an innings victory in this match, Arthur Shrewsbury battimg six hours for a then Englan d record score of 164

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The Gabba over 60 years ago.

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Lot 376 – a scrapbook featuring cars

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376-a

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377

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377-a

551
Lot 551 – a remarkable album

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EBAY IMAGES

In addition to the auction lots I had to image a few records for sale on ebay (the pictures I have included were only some of the records I imaged).

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