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AN HISTORICALLY-INTERESTING EARLY 19TH-CENTURY MARINE TELESCOPE BY DOLLOND, LONDON, BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN PRESENT AT THE DUAL BETWEEN H.M.S. JAVA AND U.S.S. CONSTITUTION IN THE ANGLO-AMERICAN WAR OF 1812-3
the 1¼in. single-draw instrument with leather-covered wooden tube with single draw inscribed Dollond London / Lisboa with further later engraving listing Lambert family provenance: Adml. Robert Lambert / Capt. Henry Lambert R.N. 1812 / Adml. Sir George Robert Lambert G.C.B. / Vice Adml. Rowley Lambert C.B. -- 17¼in. (44cm.) closed; together with a later three-draw leather and brass example by the same maker and alleged provenance
(2)
The Lambert family of Weston Green, Surrey, comprised a number of interesting naval officers and several army officers with good records, and many shared family names. It seems likely that the first name listed, for Admiral Robert Stuart Lambert (1771-1836) is more likely intended to be that of Captain Robert Lambert (d.1810) who was the father of the next recipient, Henry Lambert, who entered the navy in 1795. Henry was promoted Lieutenant in 1801 and had a short, interesting career, culminating in his death when, in command of the Java (38), on 29th December 1812 he sighted and took on the larger U.S.S. Constitution, shot by a musket, he died on 4th January 1813. The Java struck her colours and was cleared before being burnt. The date ‘1812’ engraved by his name suggests this instrument was at the action. Henry’s brother, George Robert Lambert seems to have retained it until his death in 1869 when it passed to his son, Rowley Lambert (1828-1880) who became a Vice Admiral and the last name listed on the draw-tube.
£500-800
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A 19TH-CENTURY REVERSE-GLASS SILHOUETTE PICTURE OF H.M.S. ROYAL ALBERT
depicted drying her sails in company with other shipping, inscribed as per title at centre, within a verre eglomise border -- 15½ x 19½ in. (39.5 x 49.5cm.)
Originally a 120-gun sailing first rate, though never completed, H.M.S. Royal Albert was converted into a 121-gun single screw ship in 1854. Built by John Penn and Son, she had a displacement of 5,571 tons. In May of 1855 Royal Albert landed in Kamish-Burunski Bay and her fleet of 33 ships, along with a French fleet of the same size, obtained possession of the Kerch-Yenikale
Strait.The next month the fleet was responsible for destroying Russian food stores at
Taganrog.She was sold to Castle of Lambeth for breaking in September 1884.
£200-400 84.
A RARE 19TH-CENTURY NAVAL HOSPITAL CREAMWARE SOUP TUREEN AND COVER
with blue lining and oak wreath transfer monogram inscribed NH impressed marks for Copeland on base -- 7in. (18cm.) diameter; together with Royal Naval Officer’s mess side plate and egg cup, circa 1954, with maker’s marks for Coalport and Shelley
(3) £150-250
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