Lot 623
ADMIRAL LORD NELSON (1758-1805), NAVAL VICTORIES
a rare set of four small gilt-brass memorial medals, c.1805, contained in a once gilt screw-top fitted brass box, commemorating the Battles of St. Vincent, 1797; Aboukir (the Nile), 1798; Copenhagen, 1801 and Trafalgar, 1805, each with uniformed bust of Nelson left, ENGLAND EXPECTS..., reverses with battle details, each 20 mm, together with memorial medal, 1897, made from copper from HMS Foudroyant, 38 mm, in (an unrelated) lignum-vitae seal box, with the maker's label of M. Stolz of Euston Square; Carnelian intaglio seal of a fouled anchor, 25 x 23 mm; early 19th century pipe tamper, the handle a bust of Nelson, 71.5 mm (4)
*Literature:
Laurence Brown, British Historical Medals, vol.1, nos 592; 437; 454, 511 & 591
Thomas A. Hardy, Remember Nelson, 2005, nos. 3, 12, 24, & 49
Admiral the Marquess of Milford Haven, British Naval Medals, 1919, nos. 514-517
**Hardy refers to a set of the medals in a silver box with the maker's mark of Samuel Pemberton of Birmingham. The Pemberton family were well known silversmiths and toy-makers and Samuel Pemberton III (1771-1836) could well have been the maker and distributor of these little boxed sets of medals.
