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Chart chest
[Wooden chart box]
[c1790].
Polychromed wooden chart chest, decorated on the front panel in a ribbon banner, " J.R. Hobbs & Sons Cartographers Charts & Maps".
10780
Rare and fine chart case, probably made by the American chart maker, mapseller, and cartographer James R. Hobbs, active in the late eighteenth century. The box is finely painted with a banderole and monogram of an 'H' surmounted by a pair of compasses.
