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'Cornwallis' (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the gun deck (lower deck) for 'Cornwallis' (1813), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted after conversion to screw at Plymouth between October 1854 and April 1855. Signed John Edye [
April 1855
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'Cornwallis' (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the hold for 'Cornwallis' (1813), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted after conversion to screw at Plymouth between October 1854 and April 1855. Signed John Edye [Assistant Surveyo
April 1855
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'Cornwallis' (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for 'Cornwallis' (1813), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted after conversion to screw at Plymouth between October 1854 and April 1855. Signed John Edye [Assist
April 1855
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'Cornwallis' (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck for 'Cornwallis' (1813), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted after conversion to screw at Plymouth between October 1854 and April 1855. Signed by William Edye [Maste
April 1855
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'Cornwallis' (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for 'Cornwallis' (1813), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted after conversion to screw at Plymouth between October 1854 and April 1855. Signed John E
April 1855
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'Cornwallis' (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for 'Cornwallis' (1813), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted after conversion to screw at Plymouth between October 1854 and April 1855. Signed John Edye [Assistant S
April 1855
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'HMS Beagle' and 'Wrangler'. Medium includes watercolour, bodycolour and black chalk.
1855
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'Merlin' and 'Firefly' struck by mines off Sveaborg (Helsinki) during the Crimean War. Vignette inscribed: “Merlin & Firefly struck by infernal machines”. Refers to an occasion when Admiral Dundas, in the ‘Merlin&
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. Card-Mica covered with paper, blue with blue and black markings, graduated to 1/4 points and quadrantally in degrees. At centre of card is a hole 3" in dia. Needle- Four light edge bar needles, composed of one thin strip of steel, 2 x 7.25"
1855
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. Card-Mica covered with paper, blue with blue and black markings, graduated to 1/4 points and quadrantally in degrees. At centre of card is hole 3" in dia. Needle- Four light edge bar needles, composed of one thin strip of steel, 2 x 7.25" and
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. carriage, gun
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. deck
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. deck
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. deck, gun
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. deck, orlop
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. deck, quarter & forecastle
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. Flat-backed earthenware figure group depicting a wounded soldier supported by a sailor. Based on an engraving of 'Landing of the Invalided and the Wounded' Crimea War 'Cassels Illustrated Family Paper' 7 April 1855. The sailor to th
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. gun
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. hold
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. Inboard profile plan
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. lines
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. Lower deck plan
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. sail
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. sail
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. Scale: 1:12. Model of a suspended and elevating 13 inch mortar (circa 1855). The mortar itself is turned in wood, painted black and mounted in a metal carriage, which can be both raised and lowered horizontally for storage and firing. A slide adjustment
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. Sea service pistol. The pistol has a walnut stock with a plain, slightly domed brass butt cap, which is fitted with a lanyard iron ring, a plain brass trigger guard, a simple brass ramrod pipe and a plain brass fore-end cap. The iron ramrod is mounted i
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. section, midship
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. Swallow-tailed pennant with a blue cross on a red background. Hand-sewn wool bunting. With label 'Taken from the Admiral's barge in the Dockyard of Sebastopol, by a Midshipman of the 'Royal Albert' September 10 1855 Henry...Trollope.
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. Sword bayonet. The hilt is steel with a 83mm long leather chequered grip and steel pommel. On the obverse is a steel spring, 64mm long, secured by a screw. On the reverse is a button or dog, being the release-catch of the spring to disengage the bayonet
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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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A North Sea Breeze on the Dutch Coast. Inspired by Dutch 17th-century marine painters, the artist was very interested in creating scenes of Holland and Dutch shore life. He gave this work the secondary title, 'Scheveling fishermen hauling the 'p
1855
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A panoramic view of the entrenched position of the allied armies of England & France before Sebastopol comprising the town and harbour of Balaklava & the railway to Kadikoi, also every place of importance or interest in the seat of war.... Archive
1855
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Admiral Sir Charles Adam (1780-1853). Head-and-shoulders, classical-style marble bust of Admiral Sir Charles Adam on a round socle, the sitter dressed in a loose tunic close round the neck, his head turned half to his right. Adam was Governor of Greenwi
circa 1855
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Ashantee Medal 1873-4. Awarded to Captain Frederick Edwards HMS Rattlesnake. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria in a diadem and veil (L) Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA" Reverse: A group of soldiers and Africans fighting in the bush for their fallen comra

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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to Adm Fleet John Arbuthnot Fisher. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornam
1855
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to Adm Sir Robert Baynes. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to Admiral Sir Frederick George Denham Bedford. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a
1855
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to Captain Frederick Edwards HMS Nile. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block o
1855
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to Captain Henry Augustus Moriarty CB RN. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a bloc
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to Captain William Henry Fawckner (1829-1914). Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (left). Legend: 'VICTORIA REGINA'. Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to Charles Davis Lucas. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to Herbert R Holmes, Midshipman, HMS Neptune from 7 March 1854 to 12 April 1855, HMS Cornwallis from 13 april 1855 to 18 September 1856. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "V
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to John Harrison VC. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a na
1855
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to John Sheppard VC. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a na
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to Lieutenant Frederick Semple. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamente
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to Thomas Barnardiston. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to Vice-Adm Sir N.S.F.Digby. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented w
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to W H Hunkin. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gu
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to William E Langrish. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Miniature Baltic Medal with pin.
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (left). Legend: 'VICTORIA REGINA'. Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russia
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Baltic Medal 1854-5. Recipient unknown. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun an
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Bellerophon (1824) [ex Waterloo (1818)]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the gun deck (lower deck) for Waterloo (1818), an 80-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as proposed to be fitted as a receiving ship. Note that the plan is titled 'Bellerophon', reflect
29 September 1855
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Bellerophon (1824) [ex Waterloo (1818)]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the main deck for Waterloo (1818), an 80-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as proposed to be fitted as a receiving ship. Note that the plan is titled 'Bellerophon', reflecting the fact
29 September 1855
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Bellerophon (1824) [ex Waterloo (1818)]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck for Waterloo (1818), an 80-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as proposed to be fitted as a receiving ship. Note that the plan is titled 'Bellerophon', reflecting the fac
29 September 1855
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Bellerophon (1824) [ex Waterloo (1818)]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for Waterloo (1818), an 80-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as proposed to be fitted as a receiving ship. Note that the plan is titled 'Bellerophon', re
29 September 1855
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Black Sea, chart of the South-West Coast of the Krimea from Cape Aia to Alma Bay. By the officers of H.M.S.V. Spitfire.. Single sheet. Col. lith. Physical description Note: Lights coloured. Scale: [ca.1:42 500]. Cartographic Note: Graduated. Soundings and
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Board of Trade Sea Gallantry Medal. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria laureate (L). Below bust "V.R". Legend: "AWARDED BY THE BOARD OF TRADE FOR GALLANTRY IN SAVING LIFE". Reverse: Three men, one of whom is signalling to a rescuing life-
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Board of Trade Sea Gallantry Medal. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria laureate (L). Below bust "V.R." Legend: "AWARDED BY THE BOARD OF TRADE FOR GALLANTRY IN SAVING LIFE". Reverse: Three men, one of whom is signalling to a rescuing life-
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Board of Trade Sea Gallantry Medal. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria laureate (L). Below bust "V.R." Legend: "AWARDED BY THE BOARD OF TRADE FOR GALLANTRY IN SAVING LIFE". Reverse: Three men, one of whom is signalling to a rescuing life-
1860
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Board of Trade Sea Gallantry Medal. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria laureate (L). Below bust "V.R." Legend: "AWARDED BY THE BOARD OF TRADE FOR GALLANTRY IN SAVING LIFE". Reverse: Three men, one of whom is signalling to a rescuing life-
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Bombardment of Fort Arabat by the Sea of Azov Squadron under command of Capt E M Lyons of HMS Miranda. Explosion of the Magazine. original art: drawing
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Button, Coastguard uniform: pattern 1855 ?. Three buttons. Twisted rope edge. Within a smooth circular border on a lined background is a pre1901 crown with an anchor underneath. A belt which circles the anchor until it joins upto the crown has COASTGUA
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Careening Bay, Sevastopol 1855 showing burnt ships and Fort St Nicholas. Bound with PAG3512, PAG3514-PAG3625, with PAG3591, PAG3623 and PAG3624 loose from the album.; Medium includes graphite.
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Chart of North Polar Sea. Shows whole area north of 60 ' N. NS tracks of JC Ross in 1849 & 1850. Possibly by RT Gould - G.288:1/3 and G.285:4/16. Coloured areas with key to show international expeditions and discoveries.
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Chart of the west coast of South America extending from Valparaiso to Truxillo with plans of the principal harbours drawn chiefly from surveys made by the officers under the orders of Capt Fitzroy R.N.. Scale: circa 1:4,000,000. Blue-backed chart on two s
1865; 1855
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Clipper Ship Comet of New York in a hurricane off Bermuda on her voyage from New York to San Francisco, Octr 1852. Hand-coloured.
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Colt Navy 1851 Pattern. Percussion revolver owned by Admiral Sir Lewis Beaumont 1847-1922. The stock has a polished wood grip with a steel butt plate. There is a solid steel frame and silver plated trigger guard. The lock is a single action, six-chambered
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Commander Murray Thomas Parks, 1827 - 77. Oval head and shoulders miniature in watercolour on ivory, in an oval silver suspension locket of which the convex back is inscribed 'MURRAY THOMAS PARKS / 1855 / B. 1827. D. 1877'. The inscription, and
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Conspicuous Gallantry Medal. Conspicuous Gallantry Medal awarded to John Sheppard. Sheppard was serving on the battleship HMS ‘St Jean d’Acre’ during the Crimean War. In 1855 he devised a plan to paddle into Sebastopol harbour by night
1855
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Discoveries in the Arctic Sea up to MDCCCLIV.. No scale given. Coloured folding chart, linen backed.Folds into cardboard, leather covered box. Gold lettering on front of box reads 'Artic Sea, 1855' and on spine 'Arctic Sea'. Chart show
1855
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H.M.S. Amphitrite in the Ice. Sea of Ochotska. Lat. 53o 50'.n. Lony 142o OO'.E. An oval-format watercolour depicting 'Amphitrite' from her port side by Henry Hand inscribed: "H.M.S. Amphitrite in the Ice. Sea of Ochotska. Lat. 53o
1855
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HMS Adventure. Figurehead from the troopship HMS 'Adventure' in the form of a female head wearing a crown of stars, and finished with polychrome oil paint. This was an iron-built storeship purchased by the Navy while on the stocks at Laird
1855
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HMS Wanderer(1855); Warship; Gunboat; Steam. Scale: 1:48. A contemporary half block model of HMS Wanderer (1855), a steam gunboat (screw). Number "(48)" on backboard. Plaque inscribed "H M S "Wanderer", 4 guns. 675 tons built at
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Hobart penny token. Hobart penny token. Obverse: Emu (left) and kangaroo (right). Legend: 'TASMANIA 1855.' Reverse: Inscription, 'LEWIS ABRAHAMS DRAPER LIVERPOOL STREET HOBART TOWN.'
1855
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Horse drawn sleigh. Naval officer? accompanying lady, child and dog. Heightened with white.; Signed by artist and dated.
1855
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Medal commemorating the Baltic and Black Sea naval memorial, 1854-5. Medal commemorating the Baltic and Black Sea naval memorial, 1854-55. Obverse: Neptune, a trident in his left and a wreath in his right hand, standing on the seashore, his right leg res
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Medal commemorating the capture of Bomarsund, 1854. Medal commemorating the capture of Bomarsund, 1854. Reverse: Head of the Emperor Napoleon III (left). Legend: 'NAPOLEON III EMPEREUR'. Reverse: Inscription, 'PRISE DE BOMAR-SUND PAR LES AR
1855
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Medal commemorating the capture of Kinburn, 1855. Medal commemorating the capture of Kinburn, 1855. Obverse: Head of the Emperor Napoleon III (left). Legend: 'NAPOLEON III EMPEREUR.' Reverse: Inscription, referring to the capture by the allied
1855
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Medal commemorating the Crimean War (1854-1856). Medal commemorating the Crimean War (1854-1856). Obverse: Head of the Emperor Napoleon III (left). Legend: 'L . NAPOLEON III EMPEREUR.' Reverse: Inscription, 'GUERRE D'ORIENT GÉN
1855
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Medal commemorating the Crimean War (1854-1856). Medal commemorating the Crimean War (1854-1856). Obverse: Legend, 'EMPIRE FRANÇAIS' (French Empire). Inscription: 'VOLONTÉ NATIONALE 7.824.189 OUI NAPOLÉON III EMPEREUR 1
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Miniature: Baltic Medal 1854-55. Awarded to Captain Henry Augustus Moriarty CB RN. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seate
1855
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Pattern 1842. Musket. The stock is possibly made of walnut. Fitted with brass fore-end cap, brass butt plate, brass trigger guard and iron ramrod within brass ramrod pipe. Iron sling loops are attached to the barrel and trigger guard. A spring hook projec
1855
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