Wrought iron Armada chest
This 17th century wrought iron Armada chest had stood unopened in the attic of an English country house for 180 years until it was finally unsealed earlier this year and found to contain a mass of papers relating to Dr William Harvey and his brother Eliab which had been deposited there by his descendants in 1821.
At Bloomsbury Book Auctions on November 22 the chest, a good example of its type, duly sold for £14,…