Napoleon wins a late victory at £60,000

An early 19th century boxwood and bone Napoleonic prisoner-of-war model of the Third Rate 74-gun HMS Mars fired a shot across the bows at Hampton & Littlewood's (15% buyer's premium) Maritime Sale in Exeter on June 21 when it set a new house record of £60,000.

The 231/2in (60cm) length plank-on-frame model stood within a 23in x 2ft 4in x 101/4in (59 x 71 x 26…

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