United Kingdom. A Napoleonic Captain Appointment Document Of The Hms Kent To Captain Joseph Needham Tayler, 1813. Auction (Orden de Bernardo O’Higgins)

(Orden de Bernardo O’Higgins)

measuring 82 mm (w) x 36 mm (h)

to “perpetuate the happy moment when he and his people placed themselves under the protection of glorious France”

constructed of light brown paper stock

Royal Canadian Horse Artillery on January 13

United Kingdom. A Napoleonic Captain Appointment Document Of The Hms Kent To Captain Joseph Needham Tayler, 1813. Auction (Orden de Bernardo O’Higgins)United Kingdom. A vellum document to Joseph Needham Tayler, providing a Captain appointment to the HMS Kent, measuring 327mm (l) x 284mm (w), a five shillings duty stamp on blue paper with a tin strip is glued on the left side two thirds down the page, legible ink throughout, reverse bears handwriting script regarding Tayler Commander August 1810 Post Captain 16 Day of August 1813 and stamp on reverse of duty stamp, the document is heavily creased