21st Oct, 2009 12:00
Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art (Victory)
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[M] WILLIAM ROBERTS' COMMISSION AS LIEUTENANT OF...
WILLIAM ROBERTS' COMMISSION AS LIEUTENANT OF BARFLEUR, 1798
copper plate print on vellum with manuscript completion with impressed Admiralty and duty stamps signed by V. Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour; Sir Philip Stephens; R. Admiral William Young and Evan Nepean, dated 23rd Decr. 1798; contained within a file with historical researches and notes about Young; together with a letter of petition from Admiral Richard Strachan dated March 20th 1803 and addressed to one Benjamin Tucker, petitioning him to use his influence with Earl St. Vincent which Strachan thought greater than his own, regarding the dismissal from his ship of Captain William Hancock Kelly by Court Martial in Gibraltar, pasted into a card folder with biographical notes of Strachan and later transcript and historical notes
(2)
Provenance: With Maggs Bros. Ltd.
Estimated at £300 - £500
copper plate print on vellum with manuscript completion with impressed Admiralty and duty stamps signed by V. Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour; Sir Philip Stephens; R. Admiral William Young and Evan Nepean, dated 23rd Decr. 1798; contained within a file with historical researches and notes about Young; together with a letter of petition from Admiral Richard Strachan dated March 20th 1803 and addressed to one Benjamin Tucker, petitioning him to use his influence with Earl St. Vincent which Strachan thought greater than his own, regarding the dismissal from his ship of Captain William Hancock Kelly by Court Martial in Gibraltar, pasted into a card folder with biographical notes of Strachan and later transcript and historical notes
(2)
Provenance: With Maggs Bros. Ltd.
WILLIAM ROBERTS' COMMISSION AS LIEUTENANT OF BARFLEUR, 1798
copper plate print on vellum with manuscript completion with impressed Admiralty and duty stamps signed by V. Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour; Sir Philip Stephens; R. Admiral William Young and Evan Nepean, dated 23rd Decr. 1798; contained within a file with historical researches and notes about Young; together with a letter of petition from Admiral Richard Strachan dated March 20th 1803 and addressed to one Benjamin Tucker, petitioning him to use his influence with Earl St. Vincent which Strachan thought greater than his own, regarding the dismissal from his ship of Captain William Hancock Kelly by Court Martial in Gibraltar, pasted into a card folder with biographical notes of Strachan and later transcript and historical notes
(2)
Provenance: With Maggs Bros. Ltd.
copper plate print on vellum with manuscript completion with impressed Admiralty and duty stamps signed by V. Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour; Sir Philip Stephens; R. Admiral William Young and Evan Nepean, dated 23rd Decr. 1798; contained within a file with historical researches and notes about Young; together with a letter of petition from Admiral Richard Strachan dated March 20th 1803 and addressed to one Benjamin Tucker, petitioning him to use his influence with Earl St. Vincent which Strachan thought greater than his own, regarding the dismissal from his ship of Captain William Hancock Kelly by Court Martial in Gibraltar, pasted into a card folder with biographical notes of Strachan and later transcript and historical notes
(2)
Provenance: With Maggs Bros. Ltd.
Auction: Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art (Victory), 21st Oct, 2009
