Lot 216
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A RARE ENGLISH COMMONWEALTH BRASS SPIT-ENGINE PLATE
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A RARE ENGLISH COMMONWEALTH BRASS SPIT-ENGINE PLATE

DATED 1656

Details
A RARE ENGLISH COMMONWEALTH BRASS SPIT-ENGINE PLATE
DATED 1656
In the form of a crowned figure with engraved details holding two pikes on a base with twin sea-horses and foliate sprays, engraved with the date and initials in triad form 'F.W.M. 1656'
11 in. (28 cm.) high
Provenance
With Alistair Sampson, London, June 1990.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

For similar brass spit-jacks see J. Seymour Lindsay, Iron and Brass Implements of the English House, 1970, fig. 94-7. Figure 94 shows one decorated with the figure of Atlas supporting the world dated 1670, Croft Lyons bequest, Victoria & Albert Museum.

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