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Very large, wooden chest, French privateer, 1700s, with original padlock, ex-Peabody Essex Museum co

Currency:USD Category:Artifacts / Non-wreck Artifacts Start Price:1,600.00 USD Estimated At:2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD
Very large, wooden chest, French privateer, 1700s, with original padlock, ex-Peabody Essex Museum co
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Very large, wooden chest, French privateer, 1700s, with original padlock, ex-Peabody Essex Museum collection. 45-1/2" x 25" x 26". A massive container in dark, non-glossy aged oak (stable but split in places) with highly decorated iron straps (bright silver color), huge iron side-handles and Old World hand-hammered rivets, with tacks nailed into front spelling out PLS (owner's initials?) and 1301, complete and intact and nicely pedigreed, with museum number 14026 inked on back. De-accessed from the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.