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armament t&e, firearm: rifle
astronomical t&e: planetarium: orrery
astronomical t&e: telescope(astronomical reflector)
Backstaff
Boat's liquid compass
Boat's liquid compass and binnacle
Box
Button
Carved Figure
Case
Chart
Chart; Manuscript
Chopstick
Clinometer
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: button(3)
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: button(8)
Dipping azimuth compass
Dirk
Dirk scabbard
Display label
drafting t&e: drawing instrument set
drafting t&e: sector
Drawer
Drawing compass
Drawing instrument set
Dry card compass
Earth
Frame model
French Prisoner of War Model, Full hull model
Full hull model
Full hull model; Plank-on-frame
Full hull model; Rigged model; Display label
Georgian, Full hull model
Georgian, Skeleton model
Gunter rule
Key
Kindjal
Lid
Lloyd Creak dip circle scraper or light deflector
Manuscript
Map case part
Marine chronometer
Marine timekeeper
Marine timekeeper 'K1'
Marine timekeeper box
medical & psychological t&e: chest, medicine
Medicine chest
meter, marine distance
Miniature
Model and bracket for Earth
Non-achromatic telescope
optical t&e: telescope(non-achromatic)
Orrery
Pendant
personal gear: purse
personal symbol: coat of arms
Pin
Plank-on-frame
Pocket telescope
Portable telescope
Portrait miniature
presentation artifact: box
presentation artifact: teapot
Prisoner of war work, Full hull model
Protractor rule
Rigged model
Ruler
Scabbard for dirk
Sector
Statuette
Stocking purse
Stocking purse.
surveying & navigational t&e: backstaff
surveying & navigational t&e: clinometer
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, dipping azimuth(control compass)
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, surveying
Surveying compass
Sympiesometer
Teapot
Tea urn
Telescope
timekeeper: chronometer(K3)
timekeeper: chronometer, marine
timekeeper: chronometer, marine(2 day)
timekeeper: timekeeper, marine(K1)
Watch stand
water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 40 gun ship (French)
water transport: fighting vessel: 74 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 100 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: frigate (French)
water transport: hunting vessel: whaleboat
water transport: model, exhibition: block model(decked)
water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked)
water transport: model, vessel: full hull model(decked)
water transport: model, vessel: skeleton model(decked)
Wheellock Rifle
Winding key
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iron
ivory (? TBC)
ivory (CITES)
ivory (CITES), lignum vitae
ivory (probably)
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ivory?
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Key ivory (CITES)
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metal: brass [handles]
metal: brass [handle]
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organic: ivory ?
organic: ivory [drawer knobs]
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wood: mahogany
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Display - Maritime London Gallery
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Abbott, Lemuel Francis
Adams, George
Arnold, John Roger
Biaggio di Costanza
Biaggio di Costanzo
Chawner, Henry
Cooper, Samuel
Farquhar
Froment
Garner, Will
Graham, John
H. & F. Muller
Hatch, Charles
Henry Hughes & Son Limited
Hone, Horace
Howells & Pennington
Jean, Philippe
Jones, Thomas
Jones, William
Kendall, Larcum
Malby & Co
Peichl, Lieutanant Joseph Von
Salmon, Robert
Short, James
Simmonds, James
Simonds, James
unidentified
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Wellington
White, Samuel
Willdey, George
Wood, William
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Captain James Cook's 2nd and 3rd voyages
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Camperdown, 1797
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
Transit of Venus, 1769
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Bellona (1760)
Charming Nancy
La Gloire (1803)
Queen Charlotte (1790)
Samuel Enderby (1834)
Victory (1765)
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Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
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Berry, Edward
Biaggio di Costanzo
Blake, Robert
Cook, James
Cumming, James
Darling, Grace Horsley
Duncan, Adam
Gambier, Ed James
Hardy, Thomas Masterman
Kater, Henry
King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and IV of Naples
Knowsley, John
Mudge, Thomas
Nelson, Horatio
Pasley, Thomas
Pollard, John
Rainer, J. Spratt
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Tomlinson, Nicholas
Watts, John Richard
Wilson, Archdale
Wood, William
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A young man called Midshipman John Pollard, 1787-1868 (Miniature)
An unidentified Royal Naval lieutenant (Miniature)
'Admiral Duncan's Victory' (Battle of Camperdown) (Pendant)
Full hull model; Rigged model; Display label
Display label
An Indian miniature of Zeenat Mahal (1823–1886), wife and favourite of the King of Delhi and last Mughal Emperor (Portrait miniature)
Kindjal
Wheellock Rifle
Sympiesometer
La Gloire (1803); French; Frigate; 40 gun (Full hull model; Plank-on-frame)
John Knowsley (Miniature)
Display label
Display label
Medicine chest
Drawer
Medicine chest
Clinometer
Winding key for K1 (Winding key)
Ferdinand IV, 1751-1825, King of Naples and Sicily (Miniature)
Dipping azimuth compass
Samuel Enderby (1834); Hunting vessel; Whaler (Full hull model; Plank-on-frame)
Gunter rule
Sector
Winding key
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