A Charles I/Commonwealth small boarded oak coffer, West Country, dated 1649


The top with delicate chip-carved ends and narrow run-moulded long edges, the front with a pair of cable-carved arcades, each enclosing a cable-framed whorl within a punched-decorated border, and centred by the initials '? W' over the date '1649', the sides descending to pointed-ogee arched cut-away supports, interior lidded till, 82cm wide x 33cm deep x 48cm high, (32in wide x 12 1/2in deep x 18 1/2in high)