THE BONBONNIERE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A QUANTITY OF WOODEN BOXES INCLUDING A LATE GEORGE III BONBONNIERE
THE BONBONNIERE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Comprising: a circular oak box, the cover centred with a silver plaque engraved 'This box was made from a piece of an original Futtock Timber of Le Sans Pareil taken by the British fleet commanded by Earl Howe, June 1^s^t: 1794'; a rectangular wooden box, the hinged lid centred with carved oval commemorative plaque; a shoe-shaped wooden snuff-box with sliding lid centred with silver plaque engraved SA; a rectangular wooden snuff-box with carved foliate borders; a circular wood bonbonnière; and two silver-mounted wooden medallions commemorating H.M.S. Victory and Horatio Nelson
3½ in. (90 mm.) diam., to 4¼ in. (108 mm.) wide;
The medallions ¾ in. (20 mm.) diam. (7)

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Lot Essay

Admiral of the Fleet Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe KG (d. 1799) captured the French flagship Sans Pereil in 1794 and commissioned the ship into the Royal Navy. The ship became a prison hulk in 1802 and was finally broken up in 1842.

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