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armament accessory: measure, powder
Balance
balance, coin
balance, letter
Boat badge
Box key
Calculating machine
Capacity measure
Clinometer
Coin scales
Comparator, quartz
Container base
Container lid
Currency balance
dividers
documentary artifact: plaque
food service t&e: measure, spirit
gauge, marking
Glass lid
Glass partition
Gunner's folding rule
Hand balance
Imperial Pint
Key
land transport: sledge
Map measurer
measure
Measuring instrument
Medicine balance
Micrometer
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Navigational instrument
Padlock
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personal symbol: badge
personal symbol: coat of arms, royal
Plain scale
Plumb bob
Powder measure
rod, gauging
rule
rule, timber
Rum measure
sampling stick, fish meal
Sea-bed samples
Sizing scale
Spirit measure
Standard measures
Standard measures box
Standard measures box; Box key
Standard measures box; Glass lid
Standard measures box; Glass partition
Standard measures box; Key
Standard measures box; Padlock
Standard measures box; Padlock key
Standard measures of length
Standard measures pound No 3
Standard measures pound No 3; Container base
Standard measures pound No 3; Container lid
Surveyor's chain
Tape measure
textile working t&e: tape measure
water transport: service vessel: storeship
water transport: steam vessel
water transport accessory: badge, boat
weight, spring
weights & measures t&e: balance(part: beam)
weights & measures t&e: balance, coin
weights & measures t&e: balance, currency
weights & measures t&e: balance, currency(coin tester)
weights & measures t&e: balance, hand
weights & measures t&e: balance, letter
weights & measures t&e: balance, medicine
weights & measures t&e: bob, plumb
weights & measures t&e: bob, plumb(two)
weights & measures t&e: calculating machine
weights & measures t&e: chain, surveyor's
weights & measures t&e: clinometer((For measuring angle of heel) combined roll recorder)
weights & measures t&e: clinometer(For measuring angle of heel)
weights & measures t&e: comparator, quartz
weights & measures t&e: computing instrument: plain scale
weights & measures t&e: dividers(cooper's)
weights & measures t&e: gauge, marking(shipwrights)
weights & measures t&e: measure
weights & measures t&e: measure, rum(1/2 gallon)
weights & measures t&e: measure, rum(1/2 gill)
weights & measures t&e: measure, rum(1/2 pint)
weights & measures t&e: measure, rum(gallon)
weights & measures t&e: measure, rum(gill)
weights & measures t&e: measure, rum(pint)
weights & measures t&e: measure, rum(quart)
weights & measures t&e: measure, spirit(1 1/2 gills)
weights & measures t&e: measure, spirit(1/2 gill)
weights & measures t&e: measure, spirit(centilitre)
weights & measures t&e: measure, spirit(decilitre)
weights & measures t&e: measure, spirit(demi-decilitre)
weights & measures t&e: measurement: length, standards of
weights & measures t&e: measurer, map
weights & measures t&e: measuring instrument(For measuring standing timber)
weights & measures t&e: rod, gauging(For measuring gallons of wine & beer)
weights & measures t&e: rule(shipwrights)
weights & measures t&e: rule, gunner's folding
weights & measures t&e: rule, timber(shipwrights)
weights & measures t&e: ruler
weights & measures t&e: samples, sea-bed
weights & measures t&e: sampling stick, fish meal
weights & measures t&e: scale, sizing(for measuring wooden planks or a shoemakers measure.)
weights & measures t&e: scale, weighing
weights & measures t&e: scales
weights & measures t&e: telescope component: micrometer
weights & measures t&e: telescope component: micrometer head
weights & measures t&e: weight, spring(shipwrights)
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metal: alloy, copper
metal: aluminium
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metal: brass [hinges, pans & weights]
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metal: lead
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metal: stainless steel
metal: steel
metal: steel ?
metal: steel [balance]
metal: unknown
metal [chair nails]
organic: boxwood
organic: sharkskin [box]
organic: silk
organic: silk [box lining]
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stoneware
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wood: cane, bamboo
wood: mahogany
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Avery, W & T
Bryan Corcaran Ltd
Burt Bros
Captain Edye
Cotsworth, Moses
De Grave & Co
Dollond & Aitchison
Dresco, L.
Dring & Fage
Gaskell & Chambers Ltd
L. S. Starrett Co.
Laureoux, E
Leclerc, Humbert
R., J.
Readhead, John
Sisson, Jonathan
Tawlite
Troughton & Simms
Turner, Thomas
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Wright, H B
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Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Nares, 1875-1876
Exploration: Challenger expedition, 1872-1876
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Discovery (1873)
Ithaca 1906
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Wolverine fl.1798 [HMS]
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Beaumont, Lewis Anthony
Bigg, A
British and Commonwealth Shipping Co Ltd
Brooks, Victor Edwin Abraham
Butler
Dawes, Peter R.
Mortlock, Lewis
Neale, Henry
Nelson, Horatio
Tipshaft, E
Tizard, Thomas Henry
Troughton & Simms
Ward, Maria
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British India spirit measure, silver with hallmarks (Spirit measure)
weight, spring
Tape measure
Measuring instrument
rule
Hand balance
Comparator, quartz
Standard measures pound No 3; Container lid
Standard pound No 3 (Standard measures)
Standard measures box; Padlock
Standard measures box; Box key
Standard measures box; Padlock key
Standard measures box; Key
Standard measures box; Glass lid
Plumb bob
Plumb bob
Sea-bed samples
Map measurer
Capacity measure, Imperial Half Pint (Capacity measure)
Calculating machine
Map measurer
Powder measure
sampling stick, fish meal
Spirit measure
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