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Object connections:
| Collection | Green Blackwall collection, Miscellaneous Antiquities, Special collections |
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| Exhibitions | Traders: The East India Company and Asia |
| User collections | Textiles: supplying cloth to the world by NMMExhibitions |
| People | Provenance: Green |
Object details:
| Object ID | AAB0222 |
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| Description | A single barnacle taken from the hull of an Indiaman with smaller ones growing on it, composed of organic nacre. The accretion of barnacles and weed growth, which coppering reduced but did not prevent, could severely affect the perfomance of sailings ships. The date of this one is not known but it is presumably from the 19th century and was perhaps kept as an unusually striking example. |
| Date made | probably 19th century |
| Credit | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Green Blackwall Collection |
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| Materials | nacre |
| Measurements | Overall: 110 x 110 x 80 mm |
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