Chart chest

By [Anonymous] , 1790

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[Wooden chart box]

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[Anonymous]
[c1790].
Polychromed wooden chart chest, decorated on the front panel in a ribbon banner, " J.R. Hobbs & Sons Cartographers Charts & Maps".
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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.

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