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medal, American: lifesaving award: Massachusetts Humane Society 1791
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Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Nansen, 1893-1896
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Dr Alex Monro M.D., present Professor of Anatomy Edinburgh 1747 (Print)
Bude Harbour (Painting)
Queen Victoria's Medal 1897 (Prize medal)
Royal Geographical Society Medal: Nansen's Arctic Exploration 1893-96 (Prize medal)
Medal commemorating Dr David Livingstone's centenary (Medal)
Badge commemorating the Congress of Naval Architects & Marine Engineers 1897 (Badge)
To the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company This Print of their Iron Steamship Golconda... dedicated by... Josiah Taylor (Print)
The Iron Steamship Venus, 770 Tons, 240 Hore-power (Print)
To the China Merchant Steam Navigation Company, This Print of their Iron Steamship John Bright, is dedicated by... Josiah Taylor (Print)
John Stuart, Third Earl of Bute OB. 1792. From the Original of Ramsay, in the Collection of the Most Noble The Marquis of Bute (Print)
George The Third, King of Great Britiain, &c &c &c (Print)
The Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797 (Painting)
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