Rummer

Rummer with a rounded funnel bowl and folded foot, the stem a series of ball and flattened knops, the centre one is hollow. Wheel-engraved with a profile portrait within a laurel wreath, above: 'ADMIRAL LORD NELSON' and eight ships of the line. Inscribed around the rim: 'ENGLAND EXPECTS THAT EVERY MAN THIS DAY WILL DO HIS DUTY.'

Object Details

ID: GGG0089
Type: Rummer
Display location: Not on display
Events: Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
Date made: 19C ?
People: Nelson, Horatio
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Jacobs Collection
Measurements: Overall: 285 x 211 mm