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 […]
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In 2004, shortly after the publication of Nelson’s Purse, I was contacted by the owner of a remarkable Nelson treasure. Recently inherited, the watch had been on loan since 1962 to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, although it was in the reserve collection and not on public exhibition view when I visited the museum […]
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