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It has an Admiralty Pattern, "A.P.", or simply "Admiralty" type anchor.
The basic design remained unchanged for centuries, with the most significant changes being to the overall proportions, and a move from stocks made of wood to iron stocks in the late 1830s and early 1840s
It has a stud link chain -
In 1808 Samuel Brown, a Naval Lieutenant, fitted out a Navy vessel, the 'Penelope' with chain anchor cables and rigging and sailed her to the West Indies to prove the superiority of iron chain. In 1818 he and his cousin Samuel Lenox established a chainworks at Pontypridd. Their chains were made much stronger by the invention of the stud, patented in 1819 by Brown and Philip Thomas, foreman of the chain-shop. Brown Lenox made all the Royal Navy's anchor chains until 1916, as well as chain for great liners such as the Mauretania and Aquitania, and the launching chain for the Great Eastern shown in the famous photograph of I.K. Brunel. The last liner equipped with chain made at Pontypridd was the QE2; but this type of chain is still used by ships all over the world
Thank you!
I just found out that they want $27,000 for it.
Maybe it's worth it ... I have no idea. But I think we'll pass.