LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY COLLECTION OF APPROXIMATELY 472...

Hammer

£14,000

LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY COLLECTION OF APPROXIMATELY 472 CHINESE COINS, housed in the CHINESE HARDWOOD CABINET with twenty trays loosely stacked and numbered in Arabic and Chinese numerals, each oblong tray 7" x 9" (17.8cm x 22.9cm) with a silk covered woollen pad with the coins, in the main, stitched in position, together with the accompanying, written in black ink, contemporary twenty page loose leaf index charting the position of the majority of the identified and dated coins, the cabinet with full-width carved loop handle and enclosed by a vertically sliding panel door, 14 1/2" high, 10" wide and 8" deep (36.8cm x 25.5cm x 20.3cm), the list in a buff envelope with the name and address of previous owner in black ink and applied with a half penny George V stamp circa 1924