Cigarette box made from timber from HMS Victory, 1888

HMS VICTORY

Silver mounted oak cigarette box

with silver panel on lid engraved "1888 | Made from one of the timbers of HMS Victory flagship of Lord Nelson, at the Battle of Trafalgar. Launched 1765", 60 x 190 x 100mm, E.H. Stockwell for Alfred Clark (engraved "Clark, 20 Old Bond Street"), 1888

[with:] Letter to Admiral Sir Harry Rawson, presenting him with this box as a gift from the Duchess of Coburg "as a little memento of the late Duke in whose room here it stood for very many years", 2 pages, 8vo, headed mourning stationery of Clarence House, 9 February 1901, split in four; also with a fragment of another letter by Rawson, presenting the box to his wife as a jewel box, split in four

Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844-1900), was the second son of Queen Victoria. He spent his life in the navy and in 1888, when this box was fashioned, he was Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean (Nelson's own post at the time of his death). At this time the Victory was undergoing major repairs in Portsmouth after a catastrophic leak.

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