The final recovery of the honourable Old Rodney
As celebrations abound for the most famous of all seamen, another great British admiral was being remembered in spectacular fashion at the Nottingham auction rooms of Mellors & Kirk on June 16. The subject of a fierce engagement between collectors was the so-called Rodney Jug.
Its whereabouts in the 20th century had hitherto been a mystery but this historic Derby jug is discu…