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- [1891 or later] (Production)
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3 single sheets.
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The book in which these notes were found was bequeathed to Trinity by Nelthropp in 1901, and is dated 'H. L. N. Octr 26 1881' on the inside cover.
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Notes that at the 'Shandon Sale... on Friday May 18th 1877' [the sale of the goods of Robert Napier of West Shandon], Lot 2298 was 'a chronometer in silver case, by J. Harrison, 1770, being the duplicate of one for which the inventor received a rewards of £20,000 from the Board of Longitude...'; record of Harrison's chronometers in the 'Catalogue of Naval Exhib[itio]n 1891 page 380'; detailed quoted description of 'No 3. Instrument bought by Clockmakers Co. The duplicate of No. 1. Made actually by Harrison'.
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Notes originally found between pp. 8-9 of a volume combining The principles of Mr. Harrison's time-keeper..., London, W. Richardson and S. Clark 1767, bound with a French translation printed the same year by Veuve Girard & François Seguin at Avignon, T.15.51