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Nelson's Telescope
VISUAL WORKS, PICTURES AND PLAQUES
cigarette card
Imperial Tobacco Co. Ltd
Europe: United Kingdom
1905
card
overall: 67 mm x 36 mm

Tobacco card, number 22 from the 'Nelson' series of cigarette cards, originally issued by Will's Cigarettes, depicting a coloured drawing of the telescope presented after Lord Nelson's death to his friend Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Fremantle and claiming that it is 'very probably' the one he turned to his blind eye during the Battle of Copenhagen.


2019.763

College Purchase, 2019



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