The William K. du Pont Collection: Important Americana from Rocky Hill
The William K. du Pont Collection: Important Americana from Rocky Hill
Extremely Rare Wrought Iron 'Hessian Soldier' Keyhole Escutcheon, Southeastern Pennsylvania, Circa 1770-1780
Auction Closed
January 23, 10:36 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Extremely Rare Wrought Iron 'Hessian Soldier' Keyhole Escutcheon
Southeastern Pennsylvania
Circa 1770-1780
Possibly from an Officer's campaign chest during the Revolutionary War period.
Height 10 in.
A 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).