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tarot card / Lowry, Royal Artillery, 1840
Pack of playing cards, with suits of cups, coins, clubs and swords. Spanish. First half of 19th century. Taken by gunner Lawrence Lowry of the Royal Artillery, about 1840, from a pirate ship captured by British war vessel; and brought into Port Royal, Jamaica, where he was stationed from 1839.
prayer book / Laurence Lowry, Royal Artillery, Jamaica, 1838
Prayer book, 'The Key to Heaven', belonging to gunner Laurence Lowry, of the 3rd Company, 4th Battalion, Royal Artillery, stationed in the West Indies, 1838. Inscribed by hand in ink on the inside, 'Laurence Lowry, Gunner, Rl. Artillery, Port Royal, Jamaica, West Indies, March 1838'.