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
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