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  • Anchor Butter & Olive Oil Blend : all the taste of free range butter, all the goodness of olive oil / [New Zealand Milk (UK) Ltd.].
  • The Thames at Deptford, with several ships at anchor, men in a rowing-boat in the foreground left. Engraving by J. Royce after J. Oliphant, 1775.
  • View of the Manam river, Bangkok, Siam, with sailing ships anchored
  • The ship Agamemnon at anchor off Greenwich before setting off to lay the telegraph cable across the Atlantic from Ireland to Canada. Wood engraving by F.J. Smyth, 1857, after E. Weedon.
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  • Why not use this coupon in store today? : 10p off Anchor Butter & Olive Oil Blend (250g or 500g) : coupon valid until 31/10/01 / New Zealand Milk (UK) Limited.
  • Saint Eufemia. May be Hope from a series of panels representing Faith, Hope and Charity. Not like any known representation of Saint Euphemia, bhut as she was cast into a river the anchor may be significant.
  • A hand pointing to a red heart above which is balanced a blue anchor and above that a yellow cross representing an advertisement for the 13th International AIDS conference on 19th May 1996 in Denmark, Fakkeltog Mod AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • Two balloons in the air over boats in the water to which lines are attached from an anchoring system on the sea bed. Coloured wood engraving.
  • A yellow quarantine flag, signalling yellow fever, raised on a ship anchored at sea some distance from a port. Watercolour by E. Schwarz-Lenoir, 1920/1950 (?).
  • "English tube-teeth". The introduction of artificial crowns in England. Those made with wood decayed by moisture (Fig. 3). The screw-pivot used in the patented Foster crown (1885) had a flat base with a perforation in the porcelain body to accommodate the pivot's top, which securely anchored it to a tooth. (Fig 4).
  • Ship-building: ropes, a windlass, and a capstan. Engraving.
  • Ship-building: ropes, blocks, and rigging. Engraving.
  • Ship-building: ropes and blocks. Engraving.
  • Ship-building: a forge (top), details (below). Engraving by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Fisher-folk and their methods of work. Engraving, c.1762, by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Fisher-folk, and their methods of work. Engraving, c.1762, by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Fisher-folk and their methods of work. Engraving, c.1762, by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Fisher-folk and their methods of work. Engraving, c.1762, by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • A postcard wishing good luck illustrated by various lucky charms. Chromolithograph.
  • Front and reverse of a medal presented to Jenner by naval medical officers in 1801. Engraving, 1801, after a medal made by T. Harper.
  • A postcard illustrating a variety of good luck charms. Chromolithograph.
  • Lighthouses, docks, diving apparatus and other equipment involved in marine engineering. Process print after G. Waugh, 18--.
  • The risen Christ breaks bread with two disciples at Emmaus and is recognized by them. Watercolour painting.
  • A group of Greenwich Pensioners smoking and drinking. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1834.
  • A seventeenth-century German apothecary's shop with ornate pharmacy jars, large metal mortars and a stuffed turtle hanging from the ceiling; recreated for the German National Museum in Nuremberg. Photograph by Christof Müller.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with a rainbow over it, from the Isle of Dogs, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, viewed from a distance up river. Engraving by G. Cooke, 1828, after C. Stanfield.
  • Objects, people and activities with their names, as a teaching aid for children. Colour engraving (?).
  • A man suffering from headache in the form of devils. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835, after Captain F. Marryat.
  • A woman suffering the pain of colic; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.