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Astronomical regulators and precision clocks
Chronometers, precision watches and timekeepers
Domestic clocks and watches
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Amplitude compass
Amplitude compass lid
Design, Half block model
Folding desk
furniture: desk, folding
Half block model
Marine chronometer
personal gear: box, writing
Pocket compass
Presentation Small-Sword
Sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth: compass, amplitude
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, pocket
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
timekeeper: chronometer, marine
timekeeper: chronometer, marine(2 day)
timekeeper: chronometer, marine(8 day)
water transport: model, design: block model(half)
water transport: passenger/cargo vessel
water transport: steam vessel
Writing box
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blued steel
brass
Brazillian rosewood - Dalbergia nigra (CITES)
coating: varnish
enamel
gilt
glass
gold
ivory
lacquer
leather
metal: brass
metal: brass: Brazillian rosewood - Dalbergia nigra (CITES)
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rosewood
steel
wax
wood: fruit
wood: rosewood
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Display - Polar Worlds Gallery
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Brockbank & Atkins
Cullum
Dobbie McInnes Ltd
Ferreira
Frodsham, Charles
Kullberg, Victor
McCabe, James
Morisset, James
Parkinson & Frodsham
Poole, John
Pyott, James
Ramsden, Jesse
Sewill, Joseph
T. S. & J. D. Negus
Thomas Mercer Chronometers
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Antarctic Exploration: Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1916
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Endurance (1912)
James Caird (1916)
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Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
The Moon
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Blackwood, Capt
Crosbie, Robert
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Macbride, John
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Ommaney, John
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Shackleton, Ernest Henry
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Service vessel; Tender; Trinity House buoy tender (Half block model)
Folding desk
Amplitude compass
Presentation Small-Sword
1077 (Marine chronometer)
1511 (Marine chronometer)
3593 (Marine chronometer)
500 (Marine chronometer)
3688 (Marine chronometer)
3162 (Marine chronometer)
5229 (Marine chronometer)
Sextant
Amplitude compass lid
Writing box
1496 (Marine chronometer)
9975 (Marine chronometer)
4140 (Marine chronometer)
5060 (Marine chronometer)
1853 (Marine chronometer)
999 (Marine chronometer)
9729 (Marine chronometer)
Bare Needle Type (Pocket compass)
1740 (Marine chronometer)
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