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THREE WALKING STICKS MADE FROM THE WOOD AND COPPER OF H.M.S. FOUDROYANT


two with knob ends and one with wooden handle, each with pressed copper provenance plate, the tallest -- 36in. (91.5cm.) tall


(3) £300-500


44. AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY MARQUETRY COAT OF ARMS FOR EARL NELSON


the sycamore panel with inlaid fruitwood on scroll-form ground entitled NELSON -- 12 x 8¾in. (30.5 x 22.2cm.), later frame with trade label for the Hoyer workshop, San Francisco


Note: it has been suggested that this coat of arms was originally located in one of the doors of Earl Nelson’s carriage.


£400-600


45. AN ATTRACTIVE IVORY-INLAID YEW WOOD CRIBBAGE BOARD, CIRCA 1788


of oval form with marquetry floral design to centre, on a box base with sliding lid containing original paper label inscribed A CRIBBAGE BOARD made of Yew found Eight feet below the surface of the Marsh in digging the Foundation of the new Mast- Pond in HIS MAJESTY’S YARD at WOOLWICH began in 1788. Suppos’d to have lay’d under Ground ever since the Deluge. Years since the deluge 4144. -- 6¾in. (17cm.) wide


£200-400


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