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ARTEFACT OF WAR
This William IV silver timepiece and its owner
A cut-crystal bed, with associated mirrors and throne, sparkled at auction earlier this month, but no glamour could beat the prize that was the Union Flag flown by HMS Spartiate at the Battle of Trafalgar
The piece I’d never part with
To mark VJ Day 80, Fiona Bruce focuses on some touching family treasures
Q My grandfather, William Francis Young (1896–1949), enlisted in Bristol. He was in the war from 1914 to 1918, and was wounded and gassed. Can you tell anything from this photograph? Stuart Leslie-You
Brown Jack not only won six consecutive times in Ascot’s Queen Alexandra Stakes, but was also the model for one of only two finished sculptures by Sir Alfred Munnings. A cast of it made top price at auction–as did a Canaletto at another sale
New light on ‘Captain’ Warner’s weapon of mass destruction
