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Adam Watson's Personal Effects in cardboard box

Accession Number

1698.2022.1

Object Name

Adam Watson's Personal Effects in cardboard box

Created

08/12/2022

Creator

Hermione Cooper

Accession Date

08/12/2022

Brief Description

Box with Adam Watson's personal Effects; -
1 pair leather and silk mitts
1 pair woollen mitts
Folding Goggles in cardboard case
Mouth organ in case
Silva Sighting Compass
Map measurer
Hygrometer

Materials

wool, leather, metal, cardboard, elastic, silk, perspex

Dimensions

Box - 32(L) x23(W) x11(H) cms

Number Of Objects

7

Colour

various

Maker

various including Silva

Provenance

Adam Watson was probably one of Scotland’s most ‘well kent’ figures during the last few decades of the 1900’s.
Ecologist, mountaineer, author and climate monitor, he was best known as ‘the Cairngorms Man’ having spent a good deal of his life walking, skiing, climbing and writing about his beloved Deeside mountains.
His obituary in the Guardian newspaper suggests that he
“honed his exemplary skills as a field scientist and conservationist on the snowy and windswept tops of the Cairngorms ……obsessive, authorative, energetic and compelling in his approach, he spent decades in scholarly observations on nature and natural phenomena”
Though an author himself, no actual biography of his life has yet appeared though the sum total of his own books are maybe ‘authors of the tale’
Fortunately, we have some little pieces of the tale here in the collection, kindly donated by his daughter, Jenny. We particularly like the mouth organ on which many a tune would have been played at the ceilidhs in Deeside.

Acquisition Method

Donated by Jenny Watson

Acquisition Date

08/12/2022

Condition Check Date

08/12/2022

Rules

Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007

Modified

08/12/2022

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