5cm (1.9in) x 3.7cm (1.4in) x 2.5cm (1in)
Enamel on copper. South Staffordshire patch box with deep blue body and of ovoid form, the hinged lid with mirror to the interior, painted with a figure of Nelson standing at the stern of his ship, Tars cheer jubilantly on a smaller vessel astern, encircled by the inscription 'May the British constitution never be Repair'd With the Plasters from PARIS’, all within a deep blue ground with raised dot and gilt line border.
The inscription comes from a satirical print entitled 'A Toast for Old England', by Thomas Rowlandson after a drawing by George Woodward published on 29 October 1798, just weeks after Nelson's dispatches reached Britain reporting the victory over the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile.