Sotheby's to auction rare surviving piece of union flag flown from HMS Victory during admiral's greatest - and final - victory A tattered panel of red, white and blue woollen fabric, an unusually large surviving piece of the union flag flown at Trafalgar from Lord Nelson's ship Victory, one of hundreds of battle-stained souvenir fragments to which the flag was reduced by sailors grieving for their lost admiral, is to be auctioned by Sotheby's at an estimated price of up to £100,000. On Nelson's...
Sotheby's to auction rare surviving piece of union flag flown from HMS Victory during admiral's greatest - and final - victory A tattered panel of red, white and blue woollen fabric, an unusually large surviving piece of the union flag flown at Trafalgar from Lord Nelson's ship Victory, one of hundreds of battle-stained souvenir fragments to which the flag was reduced by sailors grieving for their lost admiral, is to be auctioned by Sotheby's at an estimated price of up to £100,000. On Nelson's...
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