The Lost Union Flag of H.M.S. Royal Sovereign at The Battle of Trafalgar »
A RARE AND FINELY PRESERVED UNION FLAG FLOWN FROM THE FORESTAY OF VICE ADMIRAL LORD COLLINGWOOD’S FLAG SHIP ROYAL SOVEREIGN FLOWN BY ORDER OF ADMIRAL VISCOUNT NELSON AT THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR, 21ST OCTOBER, 1805 Hand-stitched wool bunting with weighted edge, battle worn with evidence of powder stains and splinter tears (later 19th century sleeve […]
. View Post » A Curious Model of the Britannia, a Ship of 100 guns »
The Admiralty ‘Pull-Apart’ model for the First Rate Ship of the Line Britannia, scale 1:48. Workshop of John Hayward, Master Shipwright at Woolwich Dockyard, circa 1715. A contemporary dockyard model fully decked, equipped, and made to separate at the gun deck, revealing the deck beams. Mounted on a later baseboard with plaque inscribed: ‘The Worshipful […]
. View Post » Historic Model of HMS Victory »
On 5 July 2022, Sotheby’s London sold an extraordinary early model of HMS Victory which had been on loan at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich since 1962. Familiar to scholars, the model is the only known contemporary model of Victory in her Trafalgar state and it offers an invaluable and important material record to the […]
. View Post » Captain Thomas Dundas’ Trafalgar Silver Cup »
A large silver cup, plain with tapering half-fluting and reeded edge standing on circular foot, engraved with a coat of arms within an oak wreath and robe mantling; by Solomon Hougham, London 1802. Height: 205mm / 8 inches Weighs 524 grams / 16 tr oz 16dwt Arms: Argent a lion rampant gules a bordure […]
. View Post » The face of Nelson »
In 2014, in association with Sotheby’s, I identified, researched and negotiated the sale to the Royal Naval Museum Portsmouth of a newly-discovered life mask in plaster of Admiral Lord Nelson. The mask, discovered in a private collection in the USA, is a finer example with earlier provenance than two other similar masks: one also at RNM, the other […]
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