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Lot 204

A Pair Of Royal George Model Cannon
Circa 1840

23 May 2018, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,875 inc. premium

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A Pair Of Royal George Model Cannon
Circa 1840

Each of bronze and of tapering multi-stage form with raised mouldings, the second reinforce engraved 'Relic of the Royal George Sunk 1782. Raised 1840' (worn), plain trunnions, and knob-shaped cascabels: each on its stepped wooden carriage with wooden trucks (rear tucks and trunnion caps missing) (3)
18.5 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Offered with a copy of A Narrative Of The Loss Of The Royal George... (upper cover only of timber from the Royal George), 9th edition, Portsea (n.d., circa 1845)

H.M.S. Royal George was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. At the time of her launch in 1756 she was the largest warship in the world and saw service during the Seven Years War. She sank at Portsmouth in 1782 with the loss of more than 800 lives, one of the most serious maritime losses in British waters. A fund was established by Lloyd's Coffee House to provide aid to widows and children of the sailors lost in the sinking, which was the foundation of what would become the Lloyd's Patriotic Fund

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