£1,300
A SECTION OF H.M.S. VICTORY'S HULL PLANKING. PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY AND REMOVED DURING HER REFIT, 1923
the front with inset ship's copper plate stamped with ship's punches and reading H.M.S. VICTORY 1765 HULL PLANKING 1923 SAVE THE VICTORY, the edges inscribed TRAFALGAR 1805 and CAPE ST. VINCENT 1797, the reverse with much old wear/loss through rot, now stabilised -- 9 x 19in. (23 x 48cm.); together with a copper ball paperweight with broad arrow stamp, reputedly cast from copper from H.M.S. Victory
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Cranmer House Sale, Notts, circa 1980's, bought from H.M.S. Victory c.1923.
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