RETIRED SAILORS

This is a retired seaman with a peg leg who is living in the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, 8 inches tall,
c. 1854..

This is another retired seaman, a double amputee,  3 inches wide, and originally a box top.  This little figure shows that the pensioners still had to wear a uniform.   G.S.Charles while at Christie's London wrote that the hospital had strict rules and that all working sailors had sixpence/month deducted from their wages to support the Royal Hospital.
Did you know that the Royal Navy was always paid with gold?