A ROYAL NAVY RUM PUMP, CIRCA 1920

constructed in copper with pierced brass foot, zinc-lined interior with wooden-handled pump with leather grommet -- 41½ (105.5cm); together with a set of four zinc-lined copper graduated R.N. rum funnels with suspension loops; and an 18 gallon R.N. rum barrel, coopered in oak with black iron banding, wooden bung and Government marks incised to top, one end stamped with yard marks and painted red, the other with brass plate inscribed ROYAL NAVAL RUM CASK FROM ROYAL CLARENCE YARD – 22 x 14in. (56 x 35.5cm.)

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Provenance: private collection, UK.

Condition Report

pump has been refurbished and is in good working order, two larger funnels, much denting and signs of use; barrel has been recently, professionally refurbished

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