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A souvenir copper goblet made from the salvaged bolts from the wreck of the ship Dunbar; together with a George III silver goblet, maker's mark A.L(?), London 1774
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15 April 2014, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A souvenir copper goblet made from the salvaged bolts from the wreck of the ship Dunbar

19th century
Tapering form with central foot, engraved with commemorative inscription, height 11.3; together with a George III silver goblet, maker's mark A.L(?), London 1774, the tapering bowl engraved with the slogan, "May Voters Be Free & Representatives Independent", the reverse with monogram "PW", raised on a stepped circular foot with gadroon rim, height 14.5cm, weight of silver goblet 6oz. (2)

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The Dunbar was a full-rigged ship that was wrecked near the entrance to Sydney Harbour, Australia in 1857 with the loss of 121 lives. The bodies of twenty-two victims were recovered and are interred in a single large tomb in Camperdown Cemetery, Newtown.

"May Voters Be Free & Representatives Independent", as a quote is associated with William Rickford (1768-1854), an English banker and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons as MP for Aylesbury from 1818 to 1841.

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