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Lot 1023
A Victorian Silver Bosun's Whistle
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Mark of Hilliard & Thomason, Birmingham (1860), engraved decoration to keel, the barrel shaped buoy bearing the Royal Naval crown and anchor, no monogram.

4 in.

.35 troy oz.

From the Estate of the late Dr. Alison Mary Turner, Wake Forest, NC Much of the silver in Dr. Turner's collection was inherited from her parents, Royal Navy Captain and Mrs. John Schomberg Hammill and great-grandparents, Admiral Sir Montague Edward Browning and Lady Ruth Boldero Browning.

Tear to keel