A Scarce Black Painted English Oak Shipwright’s Caulking Tool Box c.1880 sub-Art & Sculpture with a fantastic patina and

with a fantastic patina and colour

All three bottles would make charming and welcome additions to those looking for a rather lurid and unusual decorative effect or alternatively for the serious collector

Arthur Edward Clabburn was born in the hamlet of Thorpe

or an engraving by Vertue

central rectangular stretcher

A Scarce Black Painted English Oak Shipwright’s Caulking Tool Box c.1880 sub-Art & Sculpture with a fantastic patina andOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 90 Width: 14 Depth: 6 Height: 12 The Interior: 12. 5 wide x 4. 5 deep x 9 high The black painted English oak shipwrights caulking box, displaying an attractive patination to the whole, having the original iron carrying ring handle to one flank, the lockable shaped seat top left unpainted to show the wooden grain, opening to reveal a vacant storage space, and stamped G. F. JACKMAN