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13 assorted timing weights
Advance / Retard Mechanism
Advance/ Retard Mechanism Retaining Stud
Advance/ Retard Mechanism Retaining Studs
Aft section plan
Assorted timing weights
Beat plaque
Bell Jar
Bell jar
Box
Brass plate with a steel screw
Builder's, Half block model
chronometer
chronometer, marine
Condenser
Deck watch
Deck watch box
Deck watch case
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, bridges
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, forecastle
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, lower
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper
documentary artifact: ship plan: hold
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, inboard
documentary artifact: ship plan: section
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, aft
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, forward
Drawing
Glass Plate
Glass plate and spacer
Guard Box
Hair wreath
Half block model
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hold
household accessory: frame, photo
Impulse Roller and Frame
Inboard profile plan
Lower deck plan
Manometer
Marine chronometer
Marine chronometer; Winding key
Master clock
Master impulse arm and roller
Master impulsing unit
Master suspension unit
Master Tank
Microscope
Movement
Name plate
original art: hanging
original art: print
overalls, flameproof
Pendulum
Pendulum Support
Pendulum Support Retaining Screws
Photograph frame
picture, silk
Poem
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Primary Slave Clock
Primary Slave Pendulum
Primary Slave Suspension
Print
relic, human: wreath, hair
section
Silk picture
Silk picture in a frame
Six timing weights
Slave clock
Slave suspension unit
Small steel spring
Suspension
Suspension Clamp
Tank
Technical drawing
timekeeper: chronometer, marine
timekeeper: chronometer, marine(2 day)
timekeeper: chronometer, marine(8 day)
timekeeper: watch, deck
timekeeper: watch, pocket
Timing weight
Timing weights
Upper deck plan
Vernier Slave Clock
Vernier Slave Pendulum
Vernier Slave Suspension
watch, deck
water transport: fighting vessel: minesweeper (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: minesweeper, escort (HMS)
water transport: model, exhibition: block model(decked: half: starboard)
water transport: passenger/cargo vessel
water transport: sailing vessel
Winding key
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Abraham Louis Breguet & Fils
Admiral Hamilton
Bartolozzi, Francesco
Butler, J. M.
Caldwall, James
Canot, Pierre Charles
Dickinson, William
Evans, B. B.
Finlay, Ian Hamilton
Gold, Joyce
Hall
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Hamilton, A.
Hamilton, Emma
Hamilton, G [engraver?]
Hamilton, James
Hamilton, William
Hamilton, William [artist]; Brown [engraver]
Hamilton Carhartt
Hamilton Smith, Charles
Hamilton Watch Co
Hamilton Watch Co.
Hamilton [artist]; Brown [engraver]
Hugh Douglas Hamilton
Hunter, Robert
Kane, Dr
McGoffin, John
Meyer, Henry
Mortimer, John Hamilton
Paton, Richard
Shortt, William Hamilton
Synchronome Co Ltd
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Whittaker, G. B.
Wild Hawthorn
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William Hamilton and Company
William Hamilton and Company Ltd
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American War of Independence: Siege of Gibraltar, 1779
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Glorious First of June, 1794
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Countess of Winton
Dolores Ugarte ca.1865
Dunderberg 1865 [US navy]
Eva Montgomery 1901
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Gossamer (1937)
Ilfracombe (1941)
Llandudno (1941)
Loa ca.1865 [Peruvian navy]
Monadnock ca.1865 [US navy]
Numancia (1863)
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St Jean d'Acre
Vanderbilt (1855)
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Seduction and Celebrity: The Spectacular Life of Emma Hamilton
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Boscawen, George
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Hamilton Watch Co
Harries, David H.
Howe, Richard
Longford, Edward Michael
Nelson, Horatia
Nelson, Horatio
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Pigot, Hugh
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3653 (Marine chronometer)
overalls, flameproof
Silk picture
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3309 (Marine chronometer)
23890 (Deck watch)
10229 (Deck watch)
739 (Deck watch)
13531 (Deck watch)
2061 (Deck watch)
Serial number: 1599 (Deck watch)
4138 (Marine chronometer)
Lady Hamilton photographic reproduction (Photograph frame)
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