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S.W.Fores No. 1, for Self, St. Vincent, Duncan, Nelson & Co., 2 Pence, 17 November 1818, promising to pay ‘Monsieur Bonaparte or Bearer when the Gallic Flag shall triumph over the British and the French become the Masters of the Sea’, signed by John Bull and Ben Broadside, with a vignette of a ship of the line, labelled ‘Britain's Glory and its Pride’, light mounting traces, extremely fine £100-£150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Sir David Kirch Collection of Skit Notes.

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This note is a comment on the dominance of the Royal Navy, and the unlikeliness of a successful invasion by Napoleonic France. By the time it was reprinted by Fores it was clearly out of date, but no doubt still a popular sentiment.