Gold locket with ropework rim, the reverse with lock of hair engraved around the mount with: Earl Nelson, Duke of Bronte, Nelson of The Nile, Copenhagen, Trafalgar / Obt at the moment of Victory, Oct 21st 1805. Made after 1805
It is suggested that the locket was the private property of Horatia, Nelson's daughter by Lady Hamilton, and left to Greenwich on her death in 1881.














