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Auction: 22066 - Historical Documents, Postal History & Autographs - Featuring the Robin Hunt Collection
Lot: 2029

Napoleonic Wars
Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet
A selection of naval uniform buttons comprising General Service Army buttons c.1890, some regimental arms and some monogrammed "TMH"(?), naval "VR" button; also a supposed clipping of Hardy's hair enclosed in a cutting from contemporary morning letter paper endorsed "Sir Thos Hardys hair cut off Sept. 20th 1839 Ship Augusta Hardy" - this being the date of his death. An unusual group

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