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Patch box
Oval patch box with a mirror inside the lid, commemorating Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805). The surface is enamelled, the base and gadrooned sides coloured green. The lid is white with a border of green triangles and red dots, the inscription in the centre is a black transfer 'The Victry's won/The Gallant Nelson/cry'd/He liv'd a Hero/and a Hero dy'd.'
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Object Details
| ID: | OBJ0105 |
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| Collection: | Decorative art |
| Type: | Patch box |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Events: | Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805 |
| Date made: | circa 1805 |
| People: | Nelson, Horatio |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Sutcliffe-Smith Collection |
| Measurements: | Overall: 45 x 37 x 25 mm |