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Auction 49  5 Oct 2021
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Lot 1261

Starting price: 120 GBP
Price realized: 120 GBP
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Admiral Lord Nelson, the Wreck of HMS Foudroyant (and struck from the ship's copper), 1897, copper medals (4): unsigned, facing bust of Nelson, rev. port-side ship portrait, 38mm. (BHM 3613; Eimer 1813; Hardy 107; Milford Haven 537), one very fine, one better, two extremely fine; HMS Victory copper souvenir medals (2); another, Victory and Foudroyant; World War I, fund-raising crosses (2), 1915, from Victory and Foudroyant copper, very fine (9)
The latter five bt. J. B. Hayward.
The Foudroyant medals were marketed in Blackpool by Robert Fletcher, a local cabinet maker who had purchased the salvageable oak timbers, copper sheeting and bolts from the ship. They were struck at the Birmingham Mint.
(150-200 GBP)
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