Original British Early Victorian Cased Carving Knife and Fork Set from Salvage of HMS Royal George - Sunk 1782 British Militaria On the opposite side of

On the opposite side of the leather headband over the right ear stamped into the leather reads:

IMA has obtained a small quantity of these Lewis accessories and is offering them in two configurations: the two piece hardwood rod alone

extremely well preserved considering its age

from the Battle of Omdurman to the Gallipoli campaign to the Battle of El Alamein

This experimental bayonet fighting knife began life an M7 bayonet for use with a the U

Original British Early Victorian Cased Carving Knife and Fork Set from Salvage of HMS Royal George - Sunk 1782 British Militaria On the opposite side ofOriginal 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