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WATERLOO INTEREST: A George III antique silver cup and cover Mitchell & Russell, Edinburgh 1818 A fine and large antique silver cup and cover, body with gadrooning and fruit and floral decoration, standing on reeded foot, engraved, obverse, with family coat of arms and motto of HUNTER and, reverse, with regimental badge and motto of […]
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This document is a doctored version with fake signature and seal of a private letter Admiral Lord Nelson wrote to West Indian plantation owner Simon Taylor in June 1805. After Nelson’s death at the battle of Trafalgar, his original letter was manipulated and published by anti-abolitionists ahead of the vote for the abolition of the […]
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FINE AND RARE GEORGE III TWO HANDLED SILVER PRESENTATION TRAY BY WILLIAM BATEMAN, LONDON 1816. plain with gadroon edge and leaf capped gadroon handles, centre engraved with presentation inscription: PRESENTED by the OFFICERS of the KING’S DRAGOON GUARDS to Edmund Hopkinson Esqr in Testimony of their esteem Dimensions: 580mm x 370mm / 23 1/2″ x […]
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CHAMBERLAIN’S WORCESTER WATER PLATE FROM ADMIRAL LORD NELSON’S CELEBRATED “HORATIA” SERVICE Ordered at the factory by Admiral Lord Nelson in August 1802 The circular dish with double skin and hollow handles for filling with hot water, richly-painted in the Chamberlain’s ‘Fine Old Japan’ pattern, number 240, the Imari style floral decoration including pairs of green […]
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This two handled silver cup was made by London silversmith Paul Crespin in 1743. It was presented to Prince Charles Edward Stuart by a Jacobite sympathiser and engraved with his cypher as the Jacobite Prince of Wales. Following the Battle of Culloden and the collapse of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion, the cup was given to […]
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RICHARD WESTALL RA (1765–1836) Portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton as Ariadne; shown half-length on a couch, turned to right and looking up, wearing a loose gown which partially reveals her breast; rocks with foliage in the background Oil on canvas PUBLISHED: Mezzotint engraved by W.T.Annis (active 1798-1812) EXHIBITED: Probably Royal Academy,1805 as ‘Richard Westall… 190. […]
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