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A RARE SET OF COMMEMORATIVE FUNERAL PROCESSION TOY BRICKS, 1806 A RARE SET OF COMMEMORATIVE FUNERAL PROCESSION TOY BRICKS, 1806 an incomplete set of 35 (out of 58) wooden play bricks of varying lengths depicting Nelson’s funeral procession, each brick pasted with a numbered part of the print of the procession by John Wallis, published in March 1806 -- 5¼in. (10.3cm.) long max.; together with ‘Britain’s last tribute of gratitude to her departed Hero exhibiting the Order observed in the Public Funeral Procession of the late Vice Admiral Horatio, Viscount Nelson [etc]’, coloured print published 7 March 1806 by John Wallis Junr., 72 Fleet Street, London, framed -- 19 x 16in. (48 x 40cm.) (2) Another set of 57 similar bricks with original box is on display at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (ID; ZBA1479)