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agricultural t&e: crook
agricultural t&e: flail
armament accessory: scabbard
armament t&e, body armour: gauntlet
armament t&e, edged weapon: arrow (5 crossed)
armament t&e, edged weapon: spear
armament t&e, edged weapon: spear (broken)
armament t&e, edged weapon: sword
armament t&e, edged weapon: sword (2 crossed)
armament t&e, edged weapon: trident (5 crossed)
astronomical t&e: telescope, refracting
astronomical t&e: telescope component: stand, astrographic refractor
Badge
Bell clapper
binnacle
Boat's liquid compass
Boat's Liquid Compass and Binnacle
Boat badge
Bottle
Buckle
building: battlements, castle
building: castle
Candlestick
Candlesticks
Cannon
ceremonial artifact: crown, naval
clothing accessory: buckle (3)
Compass
Compass and binnacle
Compass binnacle
Cutlass
Diving bell model
documentary artifact: badge
documentary artifact: globe, celestial
documentary artifact: globe, celestial(goblet)
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial
Dry card compass
Dry card compass and binnacle
Dry card compass on tripod
Equinoctial dial
Fireback
Fire grate
fishing & trapping t&e: trypot, whaling
food service t&e: cup (2 handled)
furniture accessory: fireback
furniture accessory: grate, fire
Goblet globe
Gyrocompass Power Unit
Knife
land transport accessory: spur (2 linked)
lighting device: candlestick(pair)
Liquid compass and binnacle
Liquid compass and binnacle - submarine
Liquid overhead compass
Liquid overhead compass and binnacle
Medal
Mounting for 13inch astrographic telescope
musical t&e: bugle
musical t&e: horn, hunting
Nelson's Ship in a Bottle
other structure: portcullis
personal symbol: crown, ducal
personal symbol: sceptre
Plaque
plate, transit
Power Unit
Printing press
printing t&e: press, printing
regulative & protective t&e: key
regulative & protective t&e: key (7 linked)
Rudder/Tiller
Ship's badge
Standard 10" compass and binnacle
stove
Stove part
Submarine liquid compass and binnacle
surveying & navigational t&e: binnacle
surveying & navigational t&e: binnacle, compass(binnacle only)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, dry card
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, boat's liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, dry card
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, submarine liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, trawler: compass, liquid overhead
surveying & navigational t&e: plate, transit
Table globe
Telescope
Telescope mount
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, synchronous
Torpedo boat compass and binnacle
trypot, whaling
Watch
water transport: dumb vessel
water transport: fighting vessel: destroyer (USS)
water transport: fighting vessel: destroyer, torpedo boat
water transport: fighting vessel: frigate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: submarine
water transport: fishing vessel: trawler
water transport: model, diving bell
water transport: sailing vessel: schooner (Polish)
water transport: sailing vessel: yacht, cutter (HMS)
water transport: service vessel: bell, diving
water transport: steam vessel
water transport accessory: anchor
water transport accessory: badge, boat
water transport accessory: badge, ship's
water transport accessory: binnacle
water transport accessory: clapper, bell
water transport accessory: stove
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Bakelite / Phenol Formaldehyde (PF)
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brass
brass, sand cast
bronze
card
cast
cast bronze
cast bronze: wooden (replica) sea carriage
cast iron
cast iron?
cast metal
castor oil
cast silver
cast silver alloy
cast steel
ceramic
ceramic lightbulb fitting
copper
copper alloy
electrical coils
electrical wire
electrical wire?
electrical wiring
electroformed
enamel
enamel?
engraved
fabric
gilt
glass
gold
ink
inscribed
leather
liquid
liquid?
magnet
mahogany
metal
metal: cast iron
metal: iron, cast
metal: wrought iron
mica
mica?
Mixed media, including: acrylic (PMMA), cast resin, wood, brass and printed canvas
nickel
nickle
paint
painted cast brass?
paper
paper/ textile card?
pigment
planished
plastic
plastic?
ply-wood
rivetted
rubber
rubber casing on wires
sheet steel
silk
silk thread
silver
stamped
steel
steel?
textile
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velvet
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Display - Nelson, Navy, Nation Gallery
Display - ROG
Display - Sea Things Gallery
Display - Voyagers
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AEG
Askaniawerke AG
Bamberg, Carl
Beck-Lee Corp
Bevan, Ernest Roland
Bevan, Ernest Rowland
Bure, Pavel
C. G. Conn Ltd
Creak, E. W.
Dawes
E. S. Ritchie & Sons
Edward John Dent & Co.
Gill, J.
Grubb, Howard
H.B&S
Heighington
Henry Hughes & Son Limited
Hughes & Kimber Ltd
II, after Isaac Habrecht
Iversen, H.
Jeckells
Jew, Albert Edward
Johannesen
John E. Hand & Sons Co
Johnson & Son
Kelvin & Hughes Ltd
Kelvin & James White Ltd
Kelvin Bottomley & Baird Ltd
Keuffel & Esser Co
Kortright, A.
Lionel Corporation
Ludolph, W.
Melone, Giovanni V
Nunn, W
Osborn
Plath, C.
Portway & Son
Ransomes & Sims
Reddell & Bate
Shonibare, Yinka
Sinclair, Jas
T. S. & J. D. Negus
Tatham & Egg
Thomson, William
Troughton & Simms
Unknown
White, James
Whyte Thomson Ltd
Woods, Walter
Woolley
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New York
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Wapping
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Carte du Ciel & the Astrographic Catalogue project, 1887-1958
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Acute (1942)
Alamein (1945)
Armada (1943)
Berkeley Castle (1943)
Britannia (1860)
Cavendish (1944)
Chakdina (1951)
Chameleon (1944)
Cheerful (1944)
Cheviot (1944)
Chieftain (1945)
Contest (1944)
Dampier (1945)
Dumbarton Castle (1943)
Dunkirk 1945 (HMS)
Espiegle (1942)
Fierce 1945 (HMS)
Formidable 1939 (HMS)
Frobisher fl.1932
Goldfinch 1940 (HMS)
H.M.S Wizard (1943)
Hound (1942)
Iskra fl.1948
Lagos (1944)
Lancaster Castle (1944)
Leeds Castle (1943)
Loch Arkaig (1945)
Loch Fada (1943)
Loch Ruthven (1944)
Maenad (1944)
Marmion (1944)
Marvel (1944)
Morpeth Castle (1943)
Mounts Bay 1945 (HMS)
Mull of Kintyre 1945 (HMS)
Nicolas Bowater (1958)
Owen 1945 (HMS)
Reggio 1944 (HMS)
Resolute (purchased 1850)
Rifleman (1943)
Shackleton (1954)
Shaw (1916)
Silverton (1940)
Snipe (1945)
Solent Queen (1889)
St. Brides Bay (1945)
St. George (1939)
Starling (1942)
Strathlairg
Suffolk 1926 (HMS)
Superb 1943 (HMS)
Sylvia (1944)
Tenacious 1943 (HMS)
Thetis (1817)
Tyrian (1942)
Ulysses 1943 (HMS)
Victoria and Albert (1843)
Wigtown Bay (1945)
Wild Goose (1942)
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Apian, Peter
Bowater, Nicolas Charles Vansittart
Bowater SS Co Ltd, London
Christie, William Henry Mahoney
Dickinson, Thomas
Gill, J.
Heighington
Jeckells
Mumford, William Thomas
Osborn
Petrus Plancius, Petrus
Reddell & Bate
Reynolds, Bosun
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Sabellus, Jacob
Smith, W. E
Tatham & Egg
Tsar of Russia
Woodget, Richard
Woods, Walter
Woolley
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Cutlass
Fire grate
Cutlass
Cutlass
Liquid compass and binnacle
Submarine liquid compass and binnacle
Nelson's Ship in a Bottle (Nelson's Ship in a Bottle)
Diving bell model
Liquid compass and binnacle - submarine
Liquid compass and binnacle
Holmes master compass and binnacle (Compass)
Dry card compass on tripod
Liquid compass and binnacle
trypot, whaling
Cutlass
Cutlass
Cutlass
Cutlass
Cutlass
Cutlass
Knife
Cutlass
Sword belt buckle (Buckle)
Celestial table globe (Table globe)
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