An image showing 'N24401; A lead-lined wooden box standing on the lower deck of the former ship-of-the-line Victory (1765) in Portsmouth Dockyard. In the Portsmouth Dockyard negative register the box is described as a "flower box of Nelson's time". It is viewed from slightly above one corner and is rectangular with a clawed foot in each corner. Each foot is fitted with a small castor. It has carrying handles at each end and each handle is a metal ring held in the mouth of a maned lion's head.'

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A flower box of Nelson's time on board the Victory (1765) at Portsmouth.

A lead-lined wooden box standing on the lower deck of the former ship-of-the-line Victory (1765) in Portsmouth Dockyard. In the Portsmouth Dockyard negative register the box is described as a "flower box of Nelson's time". It is viewed from slightly above one corner and is rectangular with a clawed foot in each corner. Each foot is fitted with a small castor. It has carrying handles at each end and each handle is a metal ring held in the mouth of a maned lion's head.

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Object details

ID:	N24401
Type:	Negative
Materials:	Glass plate negative
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	April 1929
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 120 mm x 164 mm