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Silver salver
Silver salver with the arms of Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson (1758-1805)
Oval salver with a reeded border, standing on four feet. Engraved with Lord Nelson's coat of arms with supporters and the post-Nile chief to the shield. The motto 'TRIA IUNCTA IN UNO' is engraved on the garter around the shield, and 'FAITH AND WORKS' in a scroll below. Above is a viscount's and a duke's coronet, and the chelengk crest and the 'San Josef' crest (unnamed) with the motto 'FAITH AND WORKS'.
The salver is in a wooden presentation box with a plaque: 'THIS SALVER which belonged to his Great Uncle Horatio Viscount Nelson PRESENTED TO Herbert Horatio Viscount Trafalgar by his Cousin Frank Girdlestone 1879'.
Oval salver with a reeded border, standing on four feet. Engraved with Lord Nelson's coat of arms with supporters and the post-Nile chief to the shield. The motto 'TRIA IUNCTA IN UNO' is engraved on the garter around the shield, and 'FAITH AND WORKS' in a scroll below. Above is a viscount's and a duke's coronet, and the chelengk crest and the 'San Josef' crest (unnamed) with the motto 'FAITH AND WORKS'.
The salver is in a wooden presentation box with a plaque: 'THIS SALVER which belonged to his Great Uncle Horatio Viscount Nelson PRESENTED TO Herbert Horatio Viscount Trafalgar by his Cousin Frank Girdlestone 1879'.
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Object Details
| ID: | PLT0127 |
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| Collection: | Decorative art |
| Type: | Salver |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Harris, John |
| Date made: | 1797; 1797-1798 1797-98 |
| People: | Nelson, Horatio; Nelson, Horatio Girdlestone, Frank Nelson, Catherine |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Caird Fund. |
| Measurements: | 30 x 260 x 195 mm |