AN UNUSUAL AND PATRIOTIC BRITISH SAILOR’S CHEST, THIRD-QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

heavily constructed in yellow pine with painted rope becket handles, inscribed under keyhole J.E.F., the lid painted on the inside with full width Union flag, the centre counter painted in a diamond J.E.F., with hinged ditty box compartment to left, the lid painted with poly-geometric designs and the sliding panel to private compartment with Union flag, Stars & Stripes, stylized anchors and cross, and inscribed in a period pencil hand John Elliott Ferris Dartmouth Devon together with doodles of fish etc. – 18½ x 42 x 18½in. (47 x 106.5 x 47cm.)