A brass double goffering or tally iron

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A brass double goffering or tally iron
the baluster knopped upright with urn-shaped finial, on tripod legs, English, early 19th century -- 15in. (38cm) high

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Rupert Gentle and Rachael Field, Domestic Metalwork 1640-1820, Revised and Enlarged by Belinda Gentle, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge 1994. Page 420, comparative examples plates 7 & 8.
J. Seymour Lindsay, Iron and Brass Implements of the English House, Tiranti, London 1970. Page 36, comparative examples plates 192-5 & 202-4.

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