ANOTHER GOLD AND CORNELIAN FOB-SEAL SIMILAR, engraved on one side with a flag inscribed 'Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves' with a Union Jack in one corner, the other with the opening bars of 'Britons strike home' from Henry Purcell's 'Bonduca', with the words 'Britons strike home revenge, revenge your country's wrongs', circa 1800

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ANOTHER GOLD AND CORNELIAN FOB-SEAL SIMILAR, engraved on one side with a flag inscribed 'Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves' with a Union Jack in one corner, the other with the opening bars of 'Britons strike home' from Henry Purcell's 'Bonduca', with the words 'Britons strike home revenge, revenge your country's wrongs', circa 1800
5.5cm. high

Lot Essay

INDENTHenry Purcell's 'Bonduca' was first performed in 1695
and due to its popularity was reprinted many times during the 18th Century. Its chauvinistic tone would have reflected the surge of national pride that prevailed in England towards the end of the 18th Century

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