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№ 1267

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7 October 2004

Hammer Price:
£320

Hampshire, Gosport, Thomas Wood, Jacobs’ mule Penny, 1798, similar, rev. floating raft, french folly, etc, edge lettered, 26.50g/1h (DH 3). Almost extremely fine, rare (£150-200)

Provenance:
SNC February 1912 (97115)
Fawcett/Litman Collection.

The reverse depicts one of the wind-powered armed rafts which were to act as troop transports for Napoleon’s army of invasion gathered at Boulogne