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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 sides violet, the lid with a tinted polychrome transfer depicting Victory standing on the prow of a warship holding a palm branch in one hand and a medallion of Nelson in the other, the whole within a laurel wreath. The transfer is inscribed: 'VICTORIA', 'ABOUKIR . COPENHAGEN . CADIZ'.
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Object Details
| ID: | OBJ0054 |
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| Type: | Patch box |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Events: | French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798; Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen, 1801 French Revolutionary Wars: Blockade of Cadiz, 1797 |
| Date made: | circa 1805 |
| People: | Nelson, Horatio |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Caird Fund. |
| Measurements: | Overall: 52 x 44 x 24 mm |