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168 - LORD NELSON: AN AUTOGRAPH ORDER REGARDING INFESTED BREAD
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LORD NELSON: AN AUTOGRAPH ORDER REGARDING INFESTED BREAD dated 14th January 1805, and sent to the Masters of His Majesty's Ships Royal Sovereign, Conqueror and Canopus advising them that, following an inspection by Captain Bayntun of the Leviathan, they were to destroy infested bread ...there is onboard the said Ships a quantity of Bread so full of Vermin as to be unfit for men to Eat... written in a secretarial hand and signed Nelson + Bronte, mounted in a reverse-glazed frame -- 7½ x 11½in. (19 x 29cm.) overall Provenance: Lt. Cmdr. Charles Addis M.B.E., R.N., Captain of H.M.S. Victory 1982-1986; Sold in these rooms 30 October 2013, lot 43.
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