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[ORKNEY]. [Probable estimate of cost of repairing damage done to Holm Pier by “SS” Fidget in service of Admiralty].

[s.i.]. [s.n.], [1916].
Manuscript on paper. [2]ff. Folded into ‘docket’ format, housed in recent custom red cloth folder, lettered in gilt, armorial bookplate of John Davie Manson Robertson to verso of upper board. Some light dust-soiling.
An early twentieth-century manuscript estimate by the Orkney Harbour Commissioners relating to repair costs to the pier at Holm, Orkney, following the damage done to the structure by a vessel in service of the British Navy during the First World War.

John Davie Manson Robertson (1929-2015), bibliophile who amassed an extensive library of books relating to Orcadian history and heritage.
£ 75.00 Antiquates Ref: 18943