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Title: Battle of Trafalgar union jack goes up for auction Post by: Neil on December 08, 2015, 12:11:36 PM The Union Jac kImage copyright Holt's Auctioneers A man from the Vale of Glamorgan is selling a rare union jack flag, said to have been flown at the Battle of Trafalgar. Arthur Cory, 49, said the flag had been kept in a cupboard at Penllyn Castle near Cowbridge, since he was a boy. The flag, one of only three surviving from the battle, is expected to fetch up to £50,000 at auction. It is said to have flown above Nelson's warship HMS Leviathan. The flag's "most probable" route to Penllyn Castle was through Mr Cory's ancestor Nicholas Cory, a rear admiral on William IV's Royal George yacht, the auction house said. Roland Elworthy, senior valuer at Holt's Auctioneers, said he had "no doubt as to the flag's provenance". |