The Army & Navy Co-operative, London - An early 20th century...

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£60

The Army & Navy Co-operative, London - An early 20th century brown leather travel briefcase / suitcase. The suitcase having a front brass lock flanked by leather straps. Stamped to front for the Army & Navy Co-Operative, together with label to the inside. Canvas lined interior. Measures approx. 18cm x 62cm x 35cm.

Provenance - part of a collection from Netheravon House, in Netheravon, Wiltshire. The house was built after 1734 by Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of Beaufort, on a commanding part of the chalk bluff that overlooks the Avon Valley, to the south of the 11th-century village church and close to where a Roman villa stood. The grounds were laid out by the landscape architect and astronomer Thomas Wright and published in Universal Architecture in 1755 and 1758.