JOSEPH HUME'S RED LEATHER DESPATCH BOX BY FURNELL & BAGNELL AND A SMALL CLOSE NAILED LEATHER TRUNK BY WILLIAM CHAPPLE & SON, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Property from the Estate of John Bedford
JOSEPH HUME'S RED LEATHER DESPATCH BOX BY FURNELL & BAGNELL AND A SMALL CLOSE NAILED LEATHER TRUNK BY WILLIAM CHAPPLE & SON, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

the makers' label to the interior of the first printed 'Furnell & Bagnell / Trunk Makers to the Honble East Company...[etc.]' the lid tooled 'Joseph Hume' the close nailed example with a label printed 'William Chapple & Son / Trunk, Canteen, Camp-Bedstead and Camp Equipage Manufacturers... [etc.]' together with a Victorian leather cased photograph of a gentleman, said to be Joseph Hume, the lid tooled 'J.H.' (23 by 19.5cm.) and a coloured design of a brougham carriage by Hooper (overall 15 by 28cm.) held in a glazed Hogarth style frame, with a later pencil inscription to the lower margin 'As built by Hooper & Co for the Earl of Sefton [etc.]' (4)

the first: 18cm. high, 36.5cm. wide, 25cm. deep; 7in., 1ft. 2¼in., 9¾in. the close nailed example: 21cm. high, 41.5cm. wide, 26cm, deep; 8¼in., 1ft. 4¼in., 10¼in.

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Provenance:
The despatch box and photographic portrait, Joseph Hume (1777-1855).

The carriage design, probably William Philip Molyneux, 4th Earl of Sefton (1835–1897).