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Lot 77

Amended
5 July 2005, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £504 inc. premium

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A South Staffordshire enamel Drawer Handle made to commemorate The Battle of the Nile

circa 1798
of circular form printed in black and picked out in colours with a ship in full sail, titled below 'Vanguard, 74 Guns, Augst 1st 1798', 'Admiral Nelson' inscribed above, mounted within a turned wood frame, 6.8cm including frame (frame cracked)

Footnotes

For another drawer handle depicting Nelson's ship 'Vanguard', see Rina Prentice, A Celebration of the Sea', fig 54, p 32

Saleroom notices

Illustrated as lot 67 in the catalogue

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