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Nelson / Napoleonic interest a circular, walnut patch box with tortoiseshell interior, the lid
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Nelson / Napoleonic interest a circular, walnut patch box with tortoiseshell interior, the lid painted with naval battle scene and 'The Glorious First of June' the base with pin prick 'WOOD FROM THE OLD SEAHORSE' 7.5cm diameter. HMS Seahorse was a 24-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1748. She is perhaps most famous as the ship on which a young Horatio Nelson served as a midshipman. The Glorious First of June 1794, also known as the Fourth Battle of Ushant, was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the First French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars.
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Nelson / Napoleonic interest a circular, walnut patch box with tortoiseshell interior, the lid painted with naval battle scene and 'The Glorious First of June' the base with pin prick 'WOOD FROM THE OLD SEAHORSE' 7.5cm diameter. HMS Seahorse was a 24-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1748. She is perhaps most famous as the ship on which a young Horatio Nelson served as a midshipman. The Glorious First of June 1794, also known as the Fourth Battle of Ushant, was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the First French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars.
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Bath Road
Stroud
Gloucestershire
GL5 3QF
United Kingdom
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