The Scottish Mountain Heritage Collection
873.2010.1
Swiss Alpine Club bowl
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Hermione Cooper
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Cream bowl with Swiss Alpine Club badge on front.
china
12(diameter) x 8(h) cms
1
Red shield with white cross. A chamois head above with letters " SCHWEIZER ALPEN CLUB" . Below the letters "SEKTION BASELLAND"
cream
Founder member of the Scottish Mountain Heritage Collection, Mick Tighe, is a British and International Mountain Guide and worked for many summers in the Central European Alps. It's common for alpinistes and mountain guides to use mountain huts as a base when climbing the high alpine peaks and Mick made a habit of taking a miniature bottle of whisky and a packet of shortbread to each hut as a wee present for the hut warden.
Having done this on one occasion in Switzerland, he noticed a load of old soup bowls being loaded onto a helicopter destined for the skip and having enquired what was happening the hut warden gave him this one as a souvenir - pity he didn't get the whole lot!
Donated by Mick Tighe
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Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007
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