Auction Catalogue

23 June 2005

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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№ 1423 x

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23 June 2005

Hammer Price:
£350

Royal Naval Interest, a very rare late C18th wooden recruiting board (61cm x 41.5cm and 1.7cm thick) gilded inscription on dark green/blue ground, ‘Two Guineas Bounty/ Will be given immediatly (sic) by/the CORPORATION of /PORTSMOUTH/ To Volunteers who shall/Enter the Service of the/ROYAL NAVY/March 10th 1795’ good condition for age

By repute removed from an office in Portsmouth in the early C20th and taken out to South Africa