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axe, side
barrelmaking t&e: file(cooper's)
barrelmaking t&e: punch, hoop(cooper's)
barrelmaking t&e: shave, inside(cooper's)
Base
bit, chisel/shipwright's chisel
bit, chisel?
bit, dowel
Box
Butter dish lid
Butter knife
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ceremonial artifact: flag, house
chisel
chisel, firmer
chisel, mortice
chisel, shipwright's
chisel handle
Coffee spoon
container: box
Craft blade holder
Cream jug
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Dessert fork
Dessert knife
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drawknife
eating utensils
eating utensils case
Equipment model
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file
Fish fork
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food service t&e: bowl, sugar
food service t&e: dish, serving
food service t&e: fork
food service t&e: fork, dessert
food service t&e: fork, dinner
food service t&e: fork, fish
food service t&e: jug, cream
food service t&e: knife
food service t&e: knife, bread & butter ?
food service t&e: knife, butter
food service t&e: knife, carving
food service t&e: knife, fish
food service t&e: knife, table
food service t&e: lid, butter dish
food service t&e: salver
food service t&e: spoon
food service t&e: spoon, coffee
food service t&e: spoon, grapefruit
food service t&e: spoon, mustard
food service t&e: spoon, soup
food service t&e: utensils, eating(canvas roll)
Fork
Gauge
Gouge
Hairbrush
Handle for try plane
household accessory: ashtray
iceworking t&e: knife, snow
iron, plane
Knife
knife, bread & butter
knife, sailmaker's
Lancet
lid, butter dish
lighting device: candlestick
Lion
Liquid compass - aircraft
mallet, launching
Mustard spoon
Penknife
personal gear: flask, waistcoat
personal gear: hairbrush
personal gear: penknife
personal symbol: badge
personal symbol: badge, rising sun
personal symbol: coronet, baron's
personal symbol: crest (posthumous)
plane, try
Plate
presentation artifact: ashtray
presentation artifact: casket
presentation artifact: dish, serving
presentation artifact: mallet, launching
presentation artifact: salver
presentation artifact: sporting trophy: badge, arm
presentation artifact: sporting trophy: cup
presentation artifact: sporting trophy: salver
presentation artifact: sporting trophy: tankard
presentation artifact: statuette
presentation artifact: trowel
punch, hoop
Razor
Razor blade
Ring dial
Salver
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Serving dish
shave, inside
shave, round
sheath
shipbuilding t&e: chisel, shipwright's
shipbuilding t&e: knife, sailmaker's
shipbuilding t&e: knife, sheath(sailmaker's)
Snow knife
Snuff box
snuffbox
Sounding chain
Soup spoon
Spoon
spoon, grapefruit
Spyglass telescope
square
Statuette
Steel Rule
Sugar bowl
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, aircraft: compass, aperiodic
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, aircraft: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: chain, sounding
surveying & navigational t&e: telescope, pocket
Sword
Tankard
Technical drawing
timekeeper: watch, pocket
timekeeping t&e: case, watch(fragment)
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, ring
Tongs
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Trowel
Waistcoat flask
Watch
Watch case
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship
water transport: sailing vessel: barge
water transport: steam vessel: steamer, paddle
water transport accessory: anchor
water transport accessory: angle
water transport accessory: model, anchor
Welding Gauge
woodworking t&e: adze(cooper's)
woodworking t&e: adze(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: auger(cooper's)
woodworking t&e: bit, chisel(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: bit, dowel(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: chisel(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: chisel, firmer(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: chisel, mortice(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: chisel, ship(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: drawknife(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: gouge(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: iron, plane(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: plane, try(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: shave, round(cooper's)
woodworking t&e: square edge(shipwrights)
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Atlas Iron Works
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Favell, Charles
Gladwin, S
Greaves, William, and Sons
H. H. Taylor
Halls, Halls
Henry Wilkinson & Co
Henry Wollmer & Son Ltd
Hunter & Son
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J. Fearn Ltd
James Chesterman and Co
James Dixon & Sons
J D & S
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Laurel
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Moorwoods Ltd
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SS & W Ltd
Thomas Bradbury & Sons
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Arctic Exploration: Dr John Rae, 1853-1854
Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848
Doggett's Race
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Camperdown, 1797
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Glorious First of June, 1794
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798
Malpas Regatta
Medway Sailing Barge Match
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen, 1801
Opening of Cammell Laird's Dry Dock, 1962
Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers cutter race, 1890
Thames Sailing Barge Match, 1863
World War I, 1914-1918
World War I: Battle of Dogger Bank, 1915
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Curlew fl.1962
Endurance (1956)
Indomitable 1907 (HMS)
Isca fl.1958 (MY)
Jervis Bay 1922 (SS)
John Williams II 1865 [British]
Kaputhala 1887 (SS)
Kistna (1943)
Lion (1910)
Marco Polo (1851)
Nelson (1925)
Niagara 1913 (RMS)
Orford (1928)
Oriana (1960)
Precursor 1841
Prince of Wales (1842)
Purnea 1888 (SS)
Shamrock (fl.1956)
Tom Tit (1938)
Truro Vean (fl.1955) (SY)
Whitehead (1970)
Yana fl.1960
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Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line
Barrow, John
Beatty, David
Beatty, Ethel
Blue Funnel Line
British India Steam Navigation Company Limited
Brooks, Victor Edwin Abraham
Burton, Richard Francis
Cammell Laird & Co Ltd
Canadian Pacific Line
City of Manchester
Clarke, Captain James
Cole, Henry
Cunard Line
Cunningham, Andrew Browne
Currie, William
Deacon
Duncan, Adam
Godfrey, Mrs J. H.
Graves, Thomas
Greenwich Hospital
Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt, Guy Reginald Archer
H. H. Taylor
Halls, Halls
Hood Family
Howe, Richard
Jervis, John
Lees, John A.H.
Martinelli, A. S.
Merrington, Constructor A. J.
Nelson, Horatia
Nelson, Horatio
Oliver, Henry Francis
Orient Steam Navigation Co Ltd
Parnell, I, & Son
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Penrose, Charles Vinicombe
Phelps, William
Royal Mail Lines Ltd
Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers (No.3 Battery)
Royal Naval Division
Royal United Service Institution
Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd
Thames Sailing Barge Match Fund
Thomas Watson (Shipping) Ltd
United Service Club
Wilfred Bayliss: Amalgamated Chains & Anchors Ltd (Bayliss Collection)
Williams, J Pfl
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Base
Thames Sailing Barge Match Cup (Cup)
Type 6/18 (Aperiodic compass - aircraft)
Type 6/18 (Liquid compass - aircraft)
Craft blade holder
Razor blade
Knife (Knife)
Silver trowel presented to Ethel Tree 1896 (Trowel)
Silver arm badge presented to William Phelps (Arm badge)
Lion
Silver waistcoat flask (Waistcoat flask)
Lion
HMIS Kistna launching mallet (mallet, launching)
Fish knife: Canadian Pacific (Butter knife)
H.M.S. 'Nelson' penknife (Penknife)
Hall's anchor (Equipment model; Anchor model)
Butter dish lid (lid, butter dish)
Silver candlestick (Candlestick)
Oval dish & lid (Dish)
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