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A boxwood knitting sheth
profusely chip carved with geometric ornament, with integraly carved linked chain suspension, with the date 1749, English -- 8 1/8in. (20.5cm) long, overall

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Owen Evan-Thomas, Domestic Utensils of Treen, Stobart Davies, Hertford 1973. Page 142, plate 54. Edward H. Pinto, Treen and Other Wooden Bygones, Bell and Hyman, London 1969. Section XXI, page 305-8, comparative examples plates 322-3.

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