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7Ship's biscuit
Adding machine
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Beer mat
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Bottle opener
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breaker, rum
Bulldog clip
ceremonial artifact: flag, house
Chocolate
Chocolate Tin
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Cigarette lighter
Coaster
Coasters
Cocktail sticks
Confectionery tin
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Container
container: chest, tea
container: tin, tea
container: treen(bottle)
data processing t&e: machine, adding
Dried rations
Dried soup
Drip mat
eating utensils
Emergency rations
food inspection t&e: machine, perforating
food inspection t&e: triers, salt meat
food preparation t&e: rations: biscuit, ship's
food processing t&e: breaker, rum(6 gallon)
food processing t&e: funnel, rum
food processing t&e: pump, rum
food service t&e: caddy, tea
food service t&e: iceing, cake
food service t&e: mat, bar
food service t&e: mat, beer
food service t&e: mat, drip
food service t&e: opener, bottle
food service t&e: plate, seaman's
food service t&e: rations: biscuit, ship's
food service t&e: rations: bread
food service t&e: rations: rations, dried(Type K Breakfast unit)
food service t&e: rations: rations, emergency
food service t&e: rations: rations, lifeboat emergency
food service t&e: rations: rations, lifeboat emergency(biscuits)
food service t&e: rations: soup, dried
food service t&e: rations: tin, chocolate
food service t&e: rations: tin, golden syrup
food service t&e: rations: tin, jam(apricot)
food service t&e: rations: tin, jam(blackcurrant)
food service t&e: rations: tin, jam(raspberry)
food service t&e: rations: tin, jam(strawberry)
food service t&e: rations: tin, meat
food service t&e: stick, cocktail(66)
food service t&e: tin
food service t&e: tin, biscuit
food service t&e: tin, chocolate
food service t&e: tin, mustard
food service t&e: tin, toffee
food service t&e: tray
food service t&e: tub, rum(20 gallon)
food service t&e: utensils, eating(canvas roll)
fork, galley
function unknown: container
Golden syrup tin
household accessory: ashtray
icing, cake
Jam tin
Keyring
Lifeboat emergency rations
Liferaft emergency rations
Mustard tin
Pair of bar mats
pair of pencil
Pair of pencils
Pencil
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Perforating machine
personal gear: keyring
personal gear: lighter, cigarette
plate, seaman's
pump, rum
Rule
rum barricoe
rum funnel
Rum measure
rum tub
Salt meat triers
Ship's biscuit
Ship's biscuit.
Soap
Spirit measure
Swizzle stick
Tea caddy
Tea chest
Telephone list finder
Tin
tin, confectionary
Tinned chocolate
Tinned meat
Toffee tin
Toffee tin lid
toilet article: soap
Tray
tub, rum
water transport: fighting vessel
weights & measures t&e: measure, rum(1/2 gallon)
weights & measures t&e: measure, rum(1/2 gill)
weights & measures t&e: measure, rum(1/2 pint)
weights & measures t&e: measure, rum(gallon)
weights & measures t&e: measure, rum(gill)
weights & measures t&e: measure, rum(pint)
weights & measures t&e: measure, rum(quart)
weights & measures t&e: measure, spirit(1 1/2 gills)
weights & measures t&e: measure, spirit(1/2 gill)
weights & measures t&e: measure, spirit(centilitre)
weights & measures t&e: measure, spirit(decilitre)
weights & measures t&e: measure, spirit(demi-decilitre)
Wooden bottle
written communication t&e: biro
written communication t&e: clip, bulldog
written communication t&e: list finder, telephone
written communication t&e: pencil
written communication t&e: penstand
written communication t&e: ruler
written communication t&e: stand, pen
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Bakelite / Phenol Formaldehyde (PF)
boxwood
brass [bound]
chocolate
cork
glass
inorganic: graphite
inorganic: plastic
iron
metal
metal: brass
metal: brass [bound]
metal: chromium
metal: copper
metal: enamel
metal: iron
metal: pewter
metal: steel
metal foil
oak
organic: cardboard
organic: chocolate
organic: cocoa
organic: flesh
organic: flesh: beef
organic: gelatin
organic: leather
organic: sugar
organic: wheat
paper
plastic
soap
steel
synthetic: glass
synthetic: glucose
synthetic: plastic
wboxood
wheat
wheat flour
wood
wood: oak
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Display - Polar Worlds Gallery
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Abram Lyle & Sons
Bic
Burt Bros
B W & M Ltd
Cadbury Ltd
Carr & Co Ltd
Compactas
Cracker Jack Co
Dresco, L.
Fortnum & Mason
G & C Ltd
Hancock, Corfield & Waller Ltd
Henry Thorne & Co
J. & J. Colman Ltd
J. Lyons & Co
Laureoux, E
Leclerc, Humbert
Marshall & Co
P & S
Quantock Preserving Company Limited
R., J.
R. Twining & Co Ltd
Regicore Nazing
Sharp & Sons Ltd
Spillers Milling Ltd
T. G. Tickler Ltd
Tay Chay Weng & Co (Pte) Ltd
Tennents Brewery
Unipeoo
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Antarctic Exploration: British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904
Antarctic Exploration: Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition, 1907-1909
Arctic Exploration: Parry's second voyage, 1821-1823
British Steel Challenge, 1992
Coronation of Edward VII, 1902
Coronation of King George V, 1911
Second Boer War, 1889-1902
Second Boer War: Battle of Ladysmith, 1899
Silver Jubilee of King George V, 1935
Wedding of Elizabeth II, 1947
World War I, 1914-1918
World War II, 1939-1945
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Apollo (1943)
Eagle (1918)
Hecla (1815)
Hofbräu Lager
King Alfred (1901)
Lancaster (1902)
Magpie (1943)
Problem
Titanic (1912)
Vanguard (1944)
Whaddon (1940)
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North-West Passage
Titanic Remembered
Traders: The East India Company and Asia
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Bewick, Thomas
Blewitt, James
Brooks, Victor Edwin Abraham
Cook, James
Department of Trade and Industry, Marine Survey Office
Dunnet, Betsy
Emperor Taishō of Japan
Hart, Thomas
Henry b.1900
King Albert I of Belgium
King George V
King George VI
MacDonnel, A.
Merchant Navy P.O.W. Camp
Merrington, Constructor A. J.
Natal Naval Volunteers
Pacific and Oriental Steam Navigation Co
Poincaré, Raymond Nicholas Landry
Port Line Ltd
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Queen Alexandra, Consort of King-Emperor Edward VII
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Mary, Consort of King George V
Queen Victoria
Royal United Service Institution
Svenska Lloyd Rederi A/B
Tennents Brewery
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
VII, King Edward
Watney Mann
Windsor, Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David
Young, W (RN)
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Tinned chocolate (Tinned chocolate)
rum barricoe
Salt meat triers (Salt meat triers)
Green tea caddy (Tea caddy)
Tinned chocolate (Tinned chocolate)
Emergency rations tin (Emergency rations)
Toffee tin
Ship's biscuit (Ship's biscuit)
Toffee tin
Chocolate tin (Chocolate Tin)
Lifeboat emergency rations (Lifeboat emergency rations)
Toffee tin (Toffee tin)
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Titanic swizzle stick (Swizzle stick)
Toffee tin (Toffee tin)
Toffee tin
Spirit measure
Salt meat triers (Salt meat triers)
Titanic swizzle stick (Swizzle stick)
Rum measure
breaker, rum
Ship's biscuit (Ship's biscuit)
Octagonal mustard tin (Mustard tin)
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