Antique Georgian mahogany military chest

Antique Georgian mahogany military chest

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We are delighted to offer you this Georgian 2 part military chest.

This Military chest is a decade or so earlier, than most you will see for sale.

Made of mahogany and with the flush inset brass corners and handles.

The top section with 2 small drawers and a long drawer below, the bottom section with 2 long graduated drawers.

The military chest has its brass carrying handles to each end.

The drawers are oak lined, and so points to this particular chest being ordered by an officer in England, before going on his campaign overseas.

This chest would have been lashed to the deck of a man of war, or deep below deck, before it was taken over the oceans to where the Officer was stationed.

DELIVERY UK mainland £60+vat

91.5cms wide (36ins)

50cms deep (19 3/4ins)

93cms high (36 1/2ins)

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This Georgian military campaign chest would have been made circa 1830, and when this was first made the British Ashanti war was still in progress.

The Liverpool Manchester railway was opened. At the opening, a Liverpool MP is accidentally killed by Stevensons Rocket, and so was the first Railway fatality.

King George IV died and his brother William IV ascends the throne

Civil unrest was starting in Kent and moved across Southern England , with the Swing Riots.

The riots were started in protest of threshing machines, and their own working conditions.