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BHM collection: a selection


painting of 'Schooner Harry Emett of Brixham Entering the Port of Naples 1871'

C14 Mamluk earthenware bottle

ship's log

line-throwing pistol

man trap

Radar Rat, a WW2 stuffed toy

early C19 Poor Law document: register of children

Decca navigation system receiver

pebble of Devonian limestone with a fossil of the colonial tabulate coral Thamnopora

adze, used in the building of Mayflower II

black baby doll

women's buckled shoes

model of a Severn Class RNLI lifeboat

Roman coin from the reign of Gallienus

Sun Insurance firemark plaque

neolithic greenstone axehead

painting 'William of Orange as King of England'

brass gimbal-mounted maritime compass

adze: trimming or slot adze

traverse board

medieval church screen component

document: The Belief and the Ten Commandments, framed

berry collector

book: Abide with Me by HF Lyte

decorative plate depicting John Wesley

inn sign from the George Hotel, Brixham

blacksmith's door with branding-iron tests

fireman's helmet circa 1890

Noah's Ark

Brixham trader's sales receipt

skeleton

percussion-cap pistol

market toll board

model theatre: Brixham Theatre.

metal hot water bottle, painted green

Edison Gem Phonograph

temperance teacup

HMV radio set circa 1942

model of the sailing trawler Valerian BM161

Swansea Regatta Cup 1898

anti-Hitler ceramic teapot

WW2 bomb fragment

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43 objects from the BHM collection, one for each year since the museum was founded in 1958

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