Lot 274
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A HENRY VIII IRON-BOUND LEATHER TRAVELLING CHEST
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A HENRY VIII IRON-BOUND LEATHER TRAVELLING CHEST

CIRCA 1540

Details
A HENRY VIII IRON-BOUND LEATHER TRAVELLING CHEST
CIRCA 1540
With a gabled lid and carrying handles, the underside of lid with owner's printed label 'ROBERT FENTON' and annotated 'Newcastle, Staffordshire 1851', lined with Victorian floral paper
22¼ in. (39 cm.) high; 26 in. (66 cm.) wide; 16 in. (41 cm.) deep
Provenance
Robert Fenton, according to the label.
The Burrows Collection, Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
Literature
Roger Warner Memoirs of a Twentieth Century Antique Dealer, RFS, 2003, p.85, fig. 32.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

A similar chest in Lincoln's Inn presented in 1549 by it's then Treasurer is illustrated in Fred Roe, A History of Oak Furniture, London, 1920, plate XX; and another in Ralph Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1954, Vol II, p.8, fig.16.

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