Extremely Rare Wrought Iron 'Hessian Soldier' Keyhole EscutcheonSoutheastern PennsylvaniaCirca 1770-1780 Possibly from an Officer's campaign chest during the Revolutionary War period.Height 10 in.Catalogue noteA nearly identical keyhole escutcheon is in the collection of the State Museum of Pennsylvania (William Penn Memorial Museum), Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (see Herbert, Peter and Nancy Schiffer, Antique Iron: Survey of American and English Forms, (Exton, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 1979), p. 44, fig. A). Two other were once in the collection of Mrs. J. Insley Blair (see Albert H. Sonn, Early American Wrought Iron, Vol. I, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928), pp. 258-9, pl. 113, figs. 1 and 3).
Extremely Rare Wrought Iron 'Hessian Soldier' Keyhole EscutcheonSoutheastern PennsylvaniaCirca 1770-1780 Possibly from an Officer's campaign chest during the Revolutionary War period.Height 10 in.Catalogue noteA nearly identical keyhole escutcheon is in the collection of the State Museum of Pennsylvania (William Penn Memorial Museum), Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (see Herbert, Peter and Nancy Schiffer, Antique Iron: Survey of American and English Forms, (Exton, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 1979), p. 44, fig. A). Two other were once in the collection of Mrs. J. Insley Blair (see Albert H. Sonn, Early American Wrought Iron, Vol. I, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928), pp. 258-9, pl. 113, figs. 1 and 3).
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