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(Recto) Malta 1852, from the stern port of Trafalgar; (Verso) Moses and the Golden Calf (copy of a painting?). No. 14 of 36 (PAI0849 - PAI0884). (Recto) Inscribed top left, 'Malta March 2nd 1852, from the stern port of Trafalgar'. The exact o
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. A bolt, 2 screws, 2 washers and 3 cylindrical components contained in a plastic bag, associated with ZAA0533 Shepherds clock.
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. cabins
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. cabins
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. cabins
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. deck, gun
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. deck, orlop
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. deck, orlop
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. deck, quarter & forecastle
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. Decorated skiff backboards were often awarded as prizes at 19th-century Thames regattas. This mahogany backboard, painted with the City of London arms, is from the winning skiff at Greenwich Regatta, held on 26 July 1852. It was won by John Griffiths of
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. Dry card compass Card: Mica covered with paper. Black with white markings graduated to quarter points and quadrantally in degrees. Laurel leaf decoration around pivot cap at centre. Paper cut away just inside quadrantal markings. Needle: Edge bar ne
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. Four steel screws with washers (contained in a plastic bag) associated with ZAA0533 Shepherd's clock.
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. hold
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. hold
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. Inboard profile plan
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. lines
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. lines & profile
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. lines & profile
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. Lower deck plan
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. Lower deck plan
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. Middle deck plan
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. platform
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. Remains of various screws and a brass plate (contained in a plastic bag) from the bezel associated with ZAA0533 Shepherd's clock.
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. Retaining bracket from the bezel and one screw (contained in a plastic bag) associated with ZAA0533 Shepherds clock.
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. rigging
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. sail
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. Seconds hand (contained in a plastic bag) from ZAA0533 Shepherd gate dial.
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. section, midship
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. section, midship
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. Sheer. Also related document, see ZAZ6635.1.
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. Steel/iron nut contained in a plastic bag associated with ZAA00533.

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. Threaded brass disc (contained in a plastic bag) associated with ZAA0533 slave clock and dial.
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. United States Naval sword. The hilt consists of a gilt, pierced, half-basket guard with a slit near the pommel to take a sword-knot, and a recurved quillon with a dolphin's head terminal. The pierced decoration is of oak leaves and acorns with a sc
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. Upper deck plan
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. Upper deck plan
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. Upper deck plan
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. Various paint and putty samples and the remains of screws (contained in a plastic bag) associated with ZAA0533 slave clock and dial.
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A chart of the Cattegat, the Baltic or East Sea, including the Great and Little Belts: drawn from the latest Danish, Swedish, Prussian & Russian surveys by J.S. Hobbs, F.R.G.S. Hydrographer 1858 accompanied by a book of sailing directions. Scale: circ
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A frigate. Ship portrait.
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A pair of Rasconi (1852). Mounted with PAE5605-PAE5611.
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A sloop at sea. Medium includes watercolour.
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ARCTIC SEA BAFFIN BAY SHEET 1 1853. Scale: [circa 1:4,000,000]. Mould damage on bottom border of chart. 3 Inset Plans: a) NORTH STAR BAY circa 1:150,000; b) OMENAK FIORD circa 1:350,000; c) DISKO BAY circa 1:150,000.
1853; 1852
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Breeches worn by Vice-Admiral Philip Ruffle Sharpe. Breeches worn by Vice-Admiral Philip Ruffle Sharpe (1831-1892) on 'Rattlesnake' during the Franklin Search Expedition, 1852. One leg of a pair of chamois leather breeches, unpicked at the seam,
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Despatch balloon message. Balloon message in mahogany frame as used on the Franklin Search Expedition, leader, Sir Edward Belcher. Black printed text on paper. The text on the obverse reads: 'Despatched by a Balloon, from H.M.S. Assistance. / Winter
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Discoveries in the Arctic Sea up to M.D.C.C.C.L.I. Scale: [circa 1:1,000,000]. Black and white chart covering the area of Banks Strait; Melvile Strait; Barrow Strait; Lancaster Sound and Baffin Bay in the Arctic Sea, including Melville, Bathurst and Cornw
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Discoveries in the Arctic Sea up to M.D.C.C.C.L.I. Scale: [circa 1:1,000,000]. Black and white chart covering the area of Banks Strait; Melvile Strait; Barrow Strait; Lancaster Sound and Baffin Bay in the Artic Sea, including Melville, Bathurst and Cornwa
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Electroplated cream jug. Electroplated cream jug used on P & O ships. Ornate cream jug standing on three scrolled feet, and with a high handle decorated with scrolling foliage and open at one side. There is a wide pouring lip, and one side of the jug
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Grace Horsley Darling. Grace Darling was born in 1815 and achieved great fame for the rescue she made with her father, keeper of the Longstone lighthouse, when the 'Forfarshire', a paddle-steamer bound from Hull to Dundee, was wrecked on the Far
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H.M.S. 'Duke of Wellington' stancheon. Round wooden column pedestal (stancheon) with square plinth at the top and bottom. A brass plate is attached inscribed: 'Evelyn, Duchess of Wellington, from the Duke of Wellington. The first screw man
1852
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Hamburg Society for Lifesaving, Silver Medal. Obverse: A woman, crowned, seated on the bank. Her left arm resting on a shield showing the coat of arms of the City, her right arm outstretched over the river and distant view of the city of Hamburg (C), surr
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India General Service Medal 1852. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Winged Victory standing (L) crowning with a wreath a seated warrior (R). Suspended from a cusped bar an

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India General Service Medal 1854-95. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Winged Victory standing (L) crowning with a wreath a seated warrior (R). Inscription on edge: "

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India General Service Medal 1854-95. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Winged Victory standing (L) crowning with a wreath a seated warrior (R). Suspended from a cusped bar

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India General Service Medal 1854-95. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Winged Victory standing (L) crowning with a wreath a seated warrior (R). Suspended from a cusped bar
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India General Service Medal 1854-95. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Winged Victory standing (L) crowning with a wreath a seated warrior (R). Suspended from a cusped bar
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India General Service Medal 1854-95. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Winged Victory standing (L) crowning with a wreath a seated warrior (R). Suspended from a cusped bar

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India General Service Medal 1854-95. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Winged Victory standing (L) crowning with a wreath a seated warrior (R). Suspended from a cusped bar

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India General Service Medal 1854-95. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Winged Victory standing (L) crowning with a wreath a seated warrior (R). Suspended from a cusped bar

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India General Service Medal 1854-95. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Winged Victory standing (L) crowning with a wreath a seated warrior (R). Suspended from a cusped bar

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India General Service Medal 1854-95. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Winged Victory standing (L) crowning with a wreath a seated warrior (R). Suspended from a cusped bar

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Ireland S.W. coast, Valentia Harbour. Large corrections to May 1904. Single sheet. Engraving. View of entrance to Valentia Harbour. Diagram of beacons. Depicts Valencia Island. Scale: 1:10,600. Cable Terrace, belonging to the Anglo-American Telegraph Co.
1904; 1852
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Médaille Militaire 1870-1951. Médaille Militaire awarded to Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Cunningham of Hyndhope. Andrew Brown Cunningham was born on January 7 1883 and entered the Navy as a Cadet aboard HMS ‘Britannia’ in 1897. He
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Medal commemorating Baron Francois Pierre Charles Dupin (1784-1873). Medal commemorating Baron Francois Pierre Charles Dupin (1784-1873). Obverse: Head of Baron Dupin (left). Legend: 'BARON CHARLES DUPIN DE L'ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES.' Revers
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Niagara Falls general view. Print
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Portrait of G.B.Airy. Print depicting a portrait of G. B. Airy.
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Rascono with cargo of wine barrels etc (1852). Mounted with PAE5605-PAE5609, PAE5611-PAE5612.
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Rating's cap ribbon, Fox.. Although they would have been worn earlier, cap and hat ribbons were an integral part of the dress of ratings by the 1840s. A portrait of the Prince of Wales (Edward VII) in his sailor suit (UNI0293 & UNI0294) shows him
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Section of a First Class, First-Rate Line of Battle Ship of 131 Guns, with Screw Propeller & Auxiliary Steam Power Royal Albert. Text in English below text.
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Sir George Biddell Airy (1801-92). Print
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Slave clock and dial. Slave clock connected to the Shepherd master clock installed at the Royal Observatory in 1852. This slave clock was installed at the gates to the Observatory and was the first clock ever to show Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) directly to
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Sledge flag. A sledge flag embroidered with Sir John Barrow's motto ‘HOPE ON HOPE EVER’ made by Lady Jane Franklin for Lieutenant Bedford Pim. It was flown from HM sledge 'John Barrow' commanded by Pim when he made contact with
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The ‘Flying Cloud’ at sea under full sail. Hand-coloured.The ‘Flying Cloud’ was a very fast ship and set the record for the passage from New York to San Francisco, which she accomplished in 89 days (unpublished catalogue of the Mac
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The barque 'Koh-i-noor'. This painting shows the barque 'Koh-i-noor' in starboard broadside view off Cape Town, with Table Mountain rather unrealistically represented in the background. The ship is flying a Union flag at the fore, whi
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The clipper Star of the East in Australia. Oil painting
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The Great Britain 1852. Heightened with white.
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The Paragon Steam Boat copied from an Original drawing by Robert Fulton, in the possession of J. Allen. Print
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The Royal West India Mail Company's Steam Ship Orinoco, 2250 Tons, 300 Horse Power (Proof). Signed and dated by the artist in the image, lower right. The date is a little unclear, but is probably 1852 - the year the ship was launched, which was ofte
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The Screw Steam Ship Great Britain off the Rock Light leaving the Port of L'pool - Ch W 1852. U.S.S. Attant--. original art: drawing
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The Swiftsure?. Signed by artist and dated.
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The Yacht Sea Bird, of New York. Hand-coloured.
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To Donald McKay, Esq, builder of the Magnificent Clipper Ship Sovereign of the Seas. Hand-coloured.; Medium includes gum arabic.
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U S M Steam Ship Arctic. Collins Line. Mounted with PAH0256.; Hand-coloured.; Page 459.
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Various craft inscr ' Rasconi - from Cremona down the Po. Bring apples and rice - take back salt. Omnibus '. (1852). Mounted with PAE5605-PAE5610, PAE5612.
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Wind and current chart of the North Atlantic. Single sheet. Col. lith. Scale: [1: ]. Additional Places: Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea. Contents Note: Shows wind and current directions on named ships' tracks, colour-coded for the four seasons. Magneti
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. A balloon used by the Franklin search expeditions for distributing messages. Red and white paper enclosed in silk net. Rescue vessels loosed hydrogen-filled balloons carrying bundles of messages stitched to lengths of fast and slow burning fuses. As the
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. Balloon used by Franklin search expeditions for distributing messages. Red and white paper enclosed in silk net. One half of the balloon is numbered AAA4347. The other half is numbered AAA4347.1.
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23 ft Cutter. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for an 8-oared 23 ft Cutter. Signed J. Edye [Assistant Surveyor to W. Symonds] and Isaac Watts [later Surveyor of the Navy, 1860-1863]
Dated: January 1852
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28 ft Pinnace. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with deck detail for a 35 ft Barge. Signed J. Edye [Assistant to the Surveyor of the Navy], and Isaac Watts [Assistant to the Surveyo
Dated: January 1852
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Asia (1824); Queen (1839); Formidable (1825); Alfred (1819). Scale: 1:12. Plan showing the elevation and plan for the apparatus to work a Brown and Barratt Chain Cable Compressor, as fitted to Asia (1824), an 84-gun Second/Third Rate, two-decker, and als
Possibly January 1852, but annotation is dated March 1842
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'Haute Égypte, Grand Temple de Denderah, vue genérale' (Upper Egypt, Great Temple of Dendera, general view)
Taken some time in 1852
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Cement, prov
1 January 1852
Tekniska museet

Degel
1 January 1852
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Djurlim, prov
1 January 1852
Tekniska museet

Fana m/1848
1 January 1852
Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden

Fyra löv. Talbots första fotogravyr. Utförd av honom någon gång mellan 1852-1857. Det första försöket att få halvtoner med korslagt musslinsraster ("A grain of muslin croned upon itself").
1 January 1852
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Fyra löv. Talbots första fotogravyr. Utförd av honom någon gång mellan 1852-1857. Det första försöket att få halvtoner med korslagt musslinsraster ("A grain of muslin croned upon itself").
1 January 1852
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H.M.S. Maeander 44 guns. Rio June 9th 1851 (Before letters). Stored in mount with PAH0898. This print depicts the HMS ‘Meander’, a 44-gun 5th rate frigate. She is shown anchoring in the port of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, shortening her sails in p
1 Jan 1852
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H.M.S. Maeander 44 guns. Shortening Sail for Anchoring (Rio June 9th 1851). Stored in mount with PAH0898.
1 Jan 1852
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H.M.S. Meander 44 guns shortening sail for anchoring (Rio, June 9th 1851. Hand-coloured. This print depicts the HMS ‘Meander’, a 44-gun 5th rate frigate. She is shown anchoring in the port of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, shortening her sails in pre
1 Jan 1852
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Hamnbild
1 January 1852
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