Auction Catalogue

23 September 2005

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part III)

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

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Lot

№ 871

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23 September 2005

Hammer Price:
£210

‘H.M.S. Victory’ related, a copper shield, 160 x 144mm. (approx.), displaying a British 1st Class warship and inscribed in raised letters, ‘England expects T.E.M.W.D.H. Duty. Death of Nelson Oct. 21st 1805. Centenary Memento Oct. 21st 1905. Containing copper from H.M.S. Victory from Lords of the Admiralty to British & Foreign Sailors’ Society, E.R.VII’, pierced top and bottom for attachment; Clay Pipe, embossed ‘Victory, Trafalgar 1805; Ambrotype photograph (2), a naval officer, one in a damaged gilt frame, 64 x 52mm.; another in leather case, 72 x 58mm., generally good condition (4) £150-200

Sold with five press photographs of H.M.S. Victory and one of Nelson’s uniform.