Why bidders expect to pay much more
More Nelson fever to report. The exterior to this rounded rectangular George III silver vinaigrette by Birmingham smith Matthew Linwood is really very plain but open it up and it reveals a gilt hinged grille embossed with a ship portrait inscribed Victory and flanked by the word Trafalgar and the date Oct 21 1805.
Evidently, Linwood was quick off the mark with his Nelson vinaigrettes as this example - like others…