ATG letter: One East Sussex auction, three different items for discussion…
Your Letters pages have recently featured the elaboration of two items purchased from the “contents of a Sussex manor house” auctioned by Burstow & Hewett of Battle, East Sussex, on May 28-29: a Tudor oak stool and a coquilla nut snuffbox depicting Benjamin Franklin (see Auction Reports, ATG No 2702 and Letters, No 2704 & 2706).
This third letter concerns my purchase at the sale, which was a heavily relief carved yew wood snu…