Lot 18
18
A beech stay busk

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A beech stay busk
elaborately incised and chip carved with geometric patterns, part filled with coloured wax, incised THIS TO A FRIND I FREELY SEND, ALIS PHILLIPS 1720 and on the reverse KEEP WITHIN COMPAS AND YOU SHAL BE SUR TO AVOID MANY SOROVS THAT OTHERS INDURE (sic), carved with a shallow receptacle (sliding cover lacking), English, early 18th century -- 14in. (35.5cm)

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Owen Evan-Thomas Domestic Utensils of Wood 1973, chapter XIII and plates 51-53.
Edward H.Pinto Treen and Other Wooden Bygones 1969, pages 22-24 and plates 10 and 11.

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