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adornment: pendant
armament t&e, ammunition: torpedo
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ceremonial artifact: pennant, church
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clothing, headwear: uniform: hat
clothing, outerwear: uniform: coat
clothing, outerwear: uniform: uniform, Greenwich Pensioner's
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: button
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: button(1)
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: button(2)
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: uniform, Greenwich Pensioner's
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Conical Pendulum clock
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data processing t&e: weight
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drafting t&e: holder, pen
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furniture: clock, longcase
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personal gear: box, penknife
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personal gear: penknife
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Primary Slave Pendulum
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Red Pennant
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relic, animal: zoological specimen: penguin, stuffed emperor
relic, human: hair
relic, ship: disc, copper
Rigged model
Sails furled
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Shortt Free Pendulum System No 3
Shortt Free Pendulum System No 16
Shortt master and slave clock system No 3
Shortt master and slave clock system No 16
Small longcase
Stuffed Emperor Penguin
Stuffed Emperor Penguin case
surveying & navigational t&e: artificial horizon
surveying & navigational t&e: artificial horizon(Pendulum type.For use with sextant.)
timekeeper: clock (Graham 2)
timekeeper: clock, master
timekeeper: pendulum
timekeeping t&e: bob, pendulum
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two pennants and a flag
Vernier Slave Pendulum
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water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate
water transport: fighting vessel: battlecruiser
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship
water transport: fighting vessel: schooner
water transport: hunting vessel: whaler
water transport: passenger/cargo vessel: RMS
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water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel
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water transport: steam vessel: yacht
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written communication t&e: box, pencil
written communication t&e: case, pencil
written communication t&e: desk set
written communication t&e: pen
written communication t&e: pencil
written communication t&e: pencil(shipwrights)
written communication t&e: pencil, lead
written communication t&e: pencil, tombola
written communication t&e: penstand
written communication t&e: stand, pen
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Garrard & Co. Ltd
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Heath & Co. Ltd
Henry Hughes & Son Limited
Herschel, John Frederick William
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John Lilley & Son Ltd
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Parkes, Daniel
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Porter Bros and Co Ltd
Rear-Admiral Crousaz
Riefler, S.
Salzer, Leonard
Shelton, John
Shortt
Shortt, William Hamilton
Staedtler
Synchronome Co Ltd
The Royal Sovereign Pencil Co. Ltd
Tompion, Thomas
unidentified
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Venus Pencil Co
Whyte, Thomson & Co.
William Northern
Williams, I
Wilson, Edward Adrian
Womersley and Co Ltd
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1000th ship to enter port of Ghent, 1891
Antarctic Exploration: British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904
Antarctic Exploration: Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1916
Arctic Exploration: Dr John Rae, 1853-1854
Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Schwatka, 1878-1880
Barge Championship, 1898
Barge Championship, 1899
Barge Championship, Diamond Jubilee, 1897
Barge Championship, Diamond Jubilee, 1897-8
Barge Championship, Medway, 1896
Barge Championship, Medway, 1898
Barge Championship, Medway, 1901
Barge Championship, Medway, 1903
Barge Championship, Medway, 1932 (staysail class)
Barge Championship, Medway, 1937 (staysail class)
Barge Championship, Medway, 1958
Barge Championship, Medway, 1959 (staysail class)
British Empire Games, 1950
Crimean War, 1854-1856
First Opium War, 1840-1842
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Camperdown, 1797
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
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Opening of the first Atlantic Telegraph Cable, 1858
World War I, 1914-1918
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Lucia fl.1914 (HMS)
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Seduction and Celebrity: The Spectacular Life of Emma Hamilton
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Airy, George Biddell
AMVER
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Australian 2/7th Field Regiment WA Ex Members Association
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Ganderton, Henry Yorke
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Greenwich Hospital
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King George V
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Royal Greenwich Observatory
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Pennant, Chairman of the Port of London Authority (Pennant)
Pencil drawing of great sunspot
Celestial navigational globe (Pencil)
Celestial navigational globe (Pencil)
Pendulum rod
Pendulum
Vernier Slave Pendulum
Artificial Pendulum Horizon
'Hezzanith' Artificial Horizon (Artificial Pendulum Horizon)
Shortt Free Pendulum System No 16
Shortt Free Pendulum System, No. 3, Designed by William Hamilton Shortt and manufactured by the Synchronome Co. Ltd. 32-34 Clerkenwell Road, London (Shortt Free Pendulum System No 3)
Pencil: Whitbread Pale Ale (Pencil)
Pen stand (Pen stand)
Pencil: Whitbread Mackeson (Pencil)
Pencil: Whitbread Mackeson Forest Green Ale (Pencil)
Pen
Royal Mail pennant (Pennant)
Gold coloured spherical pendant (Pendant)
AMVER pennant (Pennant)
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