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16th Century Large Nuremberg Casket
Oliveri Antiques Ltd
for sale €6,728     $7,303
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16th Century Large Nuremberg Casket

16th century
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Rare 16th Century oak and iron strong Casket Nuremberg 1500c , all six sides have decorative iron work with original lock plate and Key working.

The base is elm and later can be removed.

One end clasp damaged end.

With base 70cm X 42cm X 42cm high

With out base 31cm high

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Oliveri Antiques Ltd has dated this 16th Century Nuremberg Casket to the 16th Century.

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Description
Rare 16th Century oak and iron strong Casket Nuremberg 1500c , all six sides have decorative iron work with original lock plate and Key working.

The base is elm and later can be removed.

One end clasp damaged end.

With base 70cm X 42cm X 42cm high

With out base 31cm high

Date of Manufacture

Oliveri Antiques Ltd has dated this 16th Century Nuremberg Casket to the 16th Century.

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Oliveri Antiques Ltd
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A sixteenth-century rectangular dark wood casket bound with riveted iron straps, featuring a top carrying handle and arched timber base.
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Archive I A sixteenth-century rectangular dark wood casket bound with riveted iron straps, featuring a top carrying handle and arched timber base.

16th Century large Nuremberg Casket

Archive II A sixteenth-century rectangular dark wood casket bound with riveted iron straps, featuring a top carrying handle and arched timber base. View II
Archive III A sixteenth-century rectangular dark wood casket bound with riveted iron straps, featuring a top carrying handle and arched timber base. View III
Archive IV A sixteenth-century rectangular dark wood casket bound with riveted iron straps, featuring a top carrying handle and arched timber base. View IV
Archive V A sixteenth-century rectangular dark wood casket bound with riveted iron straps, featuring a top carrying handle and arched timber base. View V
Archive VI A sixteenth-century rectangular dark wood casket bound with riveted iron straps, featuring a top carrying handle and arched timber base. View VI
Archive VII A sixteenth-century rectangular dark wood casket bound with riveted iron straps, featuring a top carrying handle and arched timber base. View VII
Archive VIII A sixteenth-century rectangular dark wood casket bound with riveted iron straps, featuring a top carrying handle and arched timber base. View VIII
Archive IX A sixteenth-century rectangular dark wood casket bound with riveted iron straps, featuring a top carrying handle and arched timber base. View IX
Archive X A sixteenth-century rectangular dark wood casket bound with riveted iron straps, featuring a top carrying handle and arched timber base. View X
Archive XI A sixteenth-century rectangular dark wood casket bound with riveted iron straps, featuring a top carrying handle and arched timber base. View XI
Archive XII A sixteenth-century rectangular dark wood casket bound with riveted iron straps, featuring a top carrying handle and arched timber base. View XII
Archive XIII A sixteenth-century rectangular dark wood casket bound with riveted iron straps, featuring a top carrying handle and arched timber base. View XIII
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Oliveri Antiques Ltd
Telephone 07785 785 097 or 07585 440 614
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Oxfordshire
United Kingdom

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A sixteenth-century rectangular dark wood casket bound with riveted iron straps, featuring a top carrying handle and arched timber base.
16th Century large Nuremberg Casket
Ref: SA1214128
A sixteenth-century rectangular dark wood casket bound with riveted iron straps, featuring a top carrying handle and arched timber base.
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Originating in sixteenth-century German metalworking centres such as Nuremberg, these iron-bound caskets served as secure transport boxes and strongboxes for money, documents, and jewellery during the Renaissance period.

These caskets were typically constructed from heavy hardwood frames, such as oak or pine, reinforced with extensive hand-forged wrought iron straps, structural rivets, top handles, and intricate interior locking mechanisms.

Authentic period examples feature hand-hammered ironwork showing natural oxidisation, hand-cut rivets with irregular spacing, original keyhole escutcheons, and signs of period joinery within the timber structure.

A historical iron-bound casket functions as a statement piece when positioned on a hallway console table, a quiet study desk, or within a gentlemans library alongside dark woods and leather accents.

Maintain the item in a climate-controlled room with stable humidity to prevent timber movement, apply microcrystalline wax to protect the forged iron straps from active corrosion, and dust gently with a dry, soft cloth.
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