Trafalgar Artifact Sold
The only surviving Union Jack from the Battle of Trafalgar was sold at auction in late October for a world-record sum of $638,102, nearly 40 times its estimated auction price. The huge 11-foot-by-7-foot flag-riddled with shot holes and still smelling of gunpowder 204 years after the historic battle-flew from the jackstaff of HMS Spartiate, a 74-gun ship-of-the-line.
