Silver snuff box
Silver snuff box with oak lid inset with a model of HMS 'Victory' under jury rig after Trafalgar. The model has paper sails and hair rigging and is set in a moulded and painted seascape and has a silver-mounted oval glass cover. On a brass plate: 'The Oak of this Box is part of a plank which was severed by a 36lb Shot from the Starboard gunnel of the VICTORY in the Glorious Battle of Trafalgar 21October 1805'.
Object Details
| ID: | REL0601 |
|---|---|
| Collection: | Relics |
| Type: | Box |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | John Linnet |
| Events: | Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805 |
| Vessels: | Victory (1765) |
| Date made: | 1827 |
| People: | Smith, Henry Sutcliffe |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Sutcliffe-Smith Collection |
| Measurements: | Overall: 30 mm x 100 mm x 70 mm |
| Parts: | Silver snuff box |