Details
An oak box, English, late 17th century
with sloping hinged lid and later fitted interior of four small drawers, with a twin panelled front centred with ebonised split baluster bosses, the lid lined with a 17th century polychrome broad sheet entitled History of the World Upside Down printed for George Minnikin and 'are to be sold at his shop at the Parrot, Shoo Lane' -- 22in. (56cm.) wide
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with sloping hinged lid and later fitted interior of four small drawers, with a twin panelled front centred with ebonised split baluster bosses, the lid lined with a 17th century polychrome broad sheet entitled History of the World Upside Down printed for George Minnikin and 'are to be sold at his shop at the Parrot, Shoo Lane' -- 22in. (56cm.) wide
See Illustration