Original British Napoleonic Named Naval Dirk and Oil Painting by Sir William Beechey R.A Sten Gun The Mk I butt caps

The Mk I butt caps proved prone to breakage

Nicely marked paper labels with wartime dates and varying batch (rate) numbers

Three of the 81 C-47s were lost before or during the jump

The first page has a profession photo of our subject with two Herr helmet decals and a hand drawn color wax pencil rendering of his 47th regiment uniform epaulette

Original British Napoleonic Named Naval Dirk and Oil Painting by Sir William Beechey R.A Sten Gun The Mk I butt capsOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is truly extraordinary and a wonderful set of artifacts from a member of a leading British Naval family of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The family is the "GARDNER" family. This concerns Rear Admiral FRANCIS FARINGTON GARDNER (1772 1821), son of Admiral of the Red Lord Alan Gardner and brother to the second Lord Admiral Alan Hyde Gardner. The set consists of a quality Midshipman's dirk in a brass