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Amplitude compass
Amplitude compass lid
Armillary sphere
astronomical t&e: sphere, armillary
balance, letter
Barometer
Box
Bust
Carriage from lantern slide projector
Carridge from lantern slide projector
cat-o'-nine-tails
Cat-o'-nine-tails
Clock
commemorative artifact: box, snuff
Currency balance
dividers
documentary artifact: model, ethnographic boat
drafting t&e: dividers
Drawing
Experiment of Leith
Figurehead
Figurehead arm
Figurehead model
fishing & trapping t&e: flenser, whaling(blubber spade?)
fishing & trapping t&e: lance, whaling
flenser, whaling
food service t&e: teapot
Full hull model
Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Sails set
furniture, ship's: sideboard
furniture: box
furniture: table, pier
furniture: wardrobe
Gauge, microamperes
knife in sheath
lamp, signalling
lance, whaling
Lodestone
Lodestone and keeper
medical & psychological t&e: saw
meteorological t&e: thermometer component: case
Microscope
Miniature
Mirror
Oil painting
optical t&e: telescope
original art: drawing
original art: picture, tinsel
original art: sculpture: bust
original art: tapestry
Painting
Pedestal
personal gear: knife in sheath
picture
Picture
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Pier table
Plank-on-frame
Pocket compass
porthole
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Rangefinder telescope
regulative & protective t&e: cat-o'-nine-tails
regulative & protective t&e: cat-o'-nine-tails(replica)
regulative & protective t&e: cat-o'-nine-tails(sealed pattern)
relic, ship: timber
Relief
Rigged model
Ruler
Sails set
Sculpture
Sextant
Shotgun
Sideboard
Signalling lamp
Snuff box
surgical saw
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth: compass, amplitude
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, pocket
surveying & navigational t&e: lodestone(artificial magnet)
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
Sympiesometer
Table, pier
Tapestry
Teapot
Telescope
Telescope and rangefinder
Theodolite
Thermometer case
Timber
Wardrobe
Watercolour
water transport: fighting vessel
water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate
water transport: fighting vessel: 100 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: boat, war (Burma)
water transport: sailing vessel (Mediaeval)
water transport: sailing vessel: barquentine
water transport: service vessel: barge, royal
water transport accessory: figurehead
water transport accessory: figurehead(half length)
water transport accessory: model, figurehead
water transport component: fo'c'sle
weights & measures t&e: balance, coin
weights & measures t&e: balance, letter
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baize
black paint
box: wood covered with black shark skin and lined with magenta silk
boxwood (?)
brass
Brass, steel. wood and glass
Brazillian rosewood - Dalbergia nigra (CITES)
coating: lacquer
colour lithography
copper
gilt
glass
Glass, metal, leather(?), wood lens cap, wooden box
gold paint
halftone
ink
inorganic: glass
inorganic: plastic
inorganic: slate
lead paint
leather
lithograph
magnetite
Marine ply, lime, ramin and boxwood. Metal - brass, copper and stainless steel, Glues used were white wood glue, epoxy and superglue, sails are tracing linen. Paints are enamel with polyurethane varnish.
metal
metal: brass
metal:brass
metal: brass: Brazillian rosewood - Dalbergia nigra (CITES)
metal: brass [pans]
metal: copper
metal: silver
metal: steel
metal: steel [blade]
oil grisaille on wood panel
oil on plywood board
Oil on plywood panel
oil on wood panel
oil paint
oil with graphite on card mounted on plywood panel
on vellum, laid on fruitwood panel
organic: baize
organic: cord [tails]
organic: cotton
organic: leather
organic: leather [thongs]
organic: paper
organic: paper [dial]
organic: rope [lashes]
organic: sharkskin [box]
organic: silk
organic: silk [box lining]
organic: twine
organic: wood [box]
organic: wood [handle]
organic: wool
organic: yarn
paint
paper
plywood panel
printed paper
rope (tails)
satinwood veneer
silver
steel
twine
varnish
watercolour
watercolour and body colour, gold and silver leaf
wax
wood
wood (?)
wood (box)
wood (handle)
wood (mahogany)
wood (mahogany?)
wood (oak)
wood (painted black)
wood (pine)
wood (probably)
wood (teak)
wood (varnished tropical hardwood)
wood (walnut)
wood - mahogany
wood: boxwood ?
wood: boxwood inlay
wood: ebony inlay
wood: mahogany
wood: sandalwood ?
wood: satinwood veneer
wood ?
wood believed to be jarrah wood metal (brackets) brown & grey
wood engraving
wood engraving, coloured
wood engraving, red ink
wood engraving and letterpress
wood engravings and letterpress
wood or metal
wood panel
wood pine? also noted as possibly oak or mahogany, but specified as pine in Woodcarver's Craft exhibition catalogue
wood [base]
wood [box]
wood [frame]
wood [handle]
wood [pole]
wood [stretcher]
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Adie, Alexander James
Anonymous (after Leonardo Guzzardi)
Barwick, E.
Belch, W.
Bone, Henry
Boulonois, Esme de
Bradbury, Arthur Royce
Brewer, H. W.
Brierly, Oswald Walters
Brun, Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le
Cambridge Instrument Co. Ltd.
Chantrey, Francis Legatt
Cobb, Charles David
Diest, Adriaen van
Durst, Alan
Edward Kahler, E
Ever Ready Co. (Great Britain) Ltd
Fairburn, John
Ferreira
Gibbons, Grinling
Guzzardi, Leonardo
Hilliard, Nicholas
Hood, John
Jackson, Mason
Landells
Landells, Ebeneezer
Landells, Ebenezer
Lascelles
Leech, John
Lincoln, C
Lincoln, Charles
Loeff, Jacob Gerritsz
Ludbrook, Alan
Masters, Robert
Minderhout, Hendrik van
Mulier, Pieter
Netherlandish School, 17th century
Peeters, Jan
Phillips, James
Pickering
Prior, Thomas Abel
Prior, W H
Ramsden, Jesse
Reid, Andrew
Robins, Thomas
Ross, Andrew
Royal Navy
Savage, William
S D Skillett
Sheraton
Soest, Pieter Cornelisz van
Sorrell, Alan Ernest
Stanfield, Clarkson
T. Fall, T.
Thwaites & Reed
Troughton & Simms
Unknown
Velde, Pieter van den
Verschuier, Lieve Pietersz
Vizetelly, Henry
Vlieger, Simon de
W. Ottway & Co. Ltd
Wallis, Alfred
Whimper
Willaerts, Adam
Witmont, Heerman
Wright, H B
Wyllie, William Lionel
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Ealing
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England
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London
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Myanmar
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Unknown
Washington
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American War of Independence: Battle of Doggerbank, 1781
Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859
Eighty Years' War: Battle of the Downs, 1639
First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Gabbard, 1653
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
Second Anglo-Dutch War: Attack on the Medway, 1667
Second Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Lowestoft, 1665
Second Anglo-Dutch War; 1665-1667
Second Anglo–Dutch War: Four Days Fight, 1666
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Brederode (1644)
Duke of Wellington (1852)
Eendracht (1653)
Emden (1916)
Foudroyant (1798)
Galatea (1859)
Horatio (1807)
Madagascar (1837)
Magnet (1826)
Memnon [HEIC]
Prince Royal (1610)
Royal Charles (1655)
Trafalgar (1841)
Victoria and Albert (1899)
Victory (1765)
Waterwitch (1871)
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Death in the ice: the shocking story of Franklin's final voyage
Nelson, Navy, Nation
North-West Passage
Seduction and Celebrity: The Spectacular Life of Emma Hamilton
Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire
The Moon
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Achmuty, Arthur
Blackwood, Capt
Brewer, H. W.
Brierly, Oswald Walters
Busbeque, Augerius Gislenus.1
Caird, James
Chantrey, Francis Legatt
Clifford, George
Evelyn, John
Franklin, John
Frederick V, Elector Palatine
Gilbert, Humphrey
Greenwich Pensioner
Haggard, John George
Hamilton, Emma
Hamilton, William
Hardy, Thomas Masterman
Herschel, John Frederick William
Indian Navy
Jackson, Mason
Keats, Richard Goodwin
King Charles II
King George III
King George Tupou I of Tonga
King William IV
Laforey, Francis
Lake, Ron
Leech, John
Lincoln, Charles
McClintock, Francis Leopold
Mulier, Pieter
Nelson, Horatio
Netherlands: Navy
Nicholson, Ben
Ommaney, John
Parks, J F
Parr, Marjorie
Perriam, Ann
Phillips, James
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Royal Navy
T. Fall, T.
Vroom, Hendrick Cornelisz
Watts, Philip
William James Herschel
With, Witte Corneliszoon de
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Wardrobe
Amplitude compass
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Unidentified Gentleman (Picture on glass)
Nannie's replacement arm (Figurehead arm)
unknown female (Figurehead)
View on the deck of the Madagascar Free Trader (Print)
Sailing vessel amid icebergs in a rough sea (Print)
Henricus Vroom, Harlemensis Pictor [Hendrik Vroom, Painter, of Harlem] (Print)
The steam Frigate Memnon To the Directors of the Honourable East India Company. This print is respectfully dedicated by their obedient servant S.D.Skillett (Print)
Our First Line of Defence: The Royal Navy, 1896 (Print)
The Death of Sir Humphrey Gilbert (Print)
Augerius Gislenus Busbeq (Print)
Our First Line of Defence: The Royal Navy, 1896 (Print)
British Warship (Drawing)
HMS Conqueror (Drawing)
Mary Elizabeth (Drawing)
Sailor (Pedestal)
Tea-Making (Greenwich Hospital) (Print)
Experiment of Leith(1788); Fighting vessel (Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Sails set)
Tapestry
The Thames at Wapping (Drawing)
Easter Amusements - The Greenwich Pensioners...(with biographical details on Daniell Ferhall, Henry Stiles, Joseph Burgin, James Connell, George French, Joseph Brown and John Manning) (Print)
Monument to Sir Richard Goodwin Keats in Greenwich Hospital (Print)
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