Object Description
An oak tray from H.M.S. Cambridge, of rectangular form, the carrying handles with turned silver plated ends, decorated in cream on a green ground with a ribbon cartouche enclosing a ship of the line, all below a naval crown and above the legend ‘H.M.S. Cambridge’, the frame with a metal plaque reading ‘Constructed of wood from H.M.S. Cambridge built at Pembroke 1858 broken up by Cox & Co at Falmouth, 1908’, with a page of provenance pasted on the underside. English, circa 1908.