Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Naval Interest, a very rare late C18th wooden recruiting board (61cm x 41.5cm and 1.7cm thick) gilded inscription on dark green/blue ground, ‘Two Guineas Bounty/ Will be given immediatly (sic) by/the CORPORATION of /PORTSMOUTH/ To Volunteers who shall/Enter the Service of the/ROYAL NAVY/March 10th 1795’ good condition for age

By repute removed from an office in Portsmouth in the early C20th and taken out to South Africa