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Item Description / Dealer Expertise
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A finely carved ebony (ex)workbox, the tray of many compartments now absent. To the inside of the lid is inlaid an engraved and polychromed ivory profile of a Jesuit priest, and a lock marked 'Chubb's Patent, 57 St Paul's Crypt, London. Chubbs Patent. Makers to Her Majesty the Queen' and numbered 511374. Galle District, Ceylon, circa 1850.
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