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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
20-Nov-2011
Lot No.
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Description:
An English penwork sewing box, probably Tunbridge, with early Tunbridge tools, circa 1800, the rectangular box with recessed base decorated in bands of pen work motifs bordering a figurative lithograph cartouche to the lid, internally segmented to store sewing equipment including a netting winder, 23 cm wide. Illustrated in Cummins, Dr G., Antique Boxes: Inside and Out, Antique Collector's Club, Suffolk, colour plate 573, p.310
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Price:
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Category:
Unclassified