Set Reminder2024-04-18 12:00:002024-04-18 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : How History Unfolds on Paper: Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part IX https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/how-history-unfolds-on-paper-choice-selections-from-the-eric-c-caren-collection-part-ix-21908 This ninth sale from Eric Caren's archives offers a bird's eye view of history from a printed, manuscript, and photographic perspective.
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LORD HIGH ADMIRAL RUSSELL?S 1693 NAVAL RECORDS SCROLL [ROYAL NAVY]. RUSSELL, Edward, Earl of Orford (1653-1727). Settlement of the accounts of Lord Orford as Treasurer of the Navy in the War of English Succession, 1693. Manuscript on 17 conjoined vellum leaves, rolled, 40 ? feet by 12 ? inches, several paper tax stamps, soiling on last leaf, ink stamp on verso of first leaf. Edward Russell, Earl of Orford (1653-1727), was a loyal supporter of King William. This document settles his financial accounts with the Crown for the year ending 31 March 1692, a period when he was serving as treasurer of the English Navy as well as Commander of the Fleet. In May and June of 1692, he led the fleet in a decisive pair of victories over the French at Barfleur and La Hogue.