Original British Early Victorian Cased Carving Knife and Fork Set from Salvage of HMS Royal George - Sunk 1782 Availability_Both It has a brim measuring

It has a brim measuring approx 2

Polished BRASS base

S - 490956

though saw no major action

This is a first model new line with a 4-digit serial number (serial number is not fully legible)

Original British Early Victorian Cased Carving Knife and Fork Set from Salvage of HMS Royal George - Sunk 1782 Availability_Both It has a brim measuringOriginal Item: One of a Kind. The loss of H. M. S. ROYAL GEORGE, the pride of the Royal Navy, in 1782 was a true shock to Great Britain. It was England's LARGEST Man o War and its sinking affected England much like the Loss of the U. S. S. ARIZONA at Pearl Harbor in WW2. In the 1840s there was an attempt to salvage some of this massive ship's components, and many were turned into tributes to the great disaster. Here is a lovely pair of Carving Knife