Privateer's chest called Nuremberg in studded iron Trunk safe 18th 19th

Privateer's chest called nuremberg in studded iron - trunk safe 18th 19th. Missing keys. The lid of the wooden inner cassette is broken. The nuremberg safe is a wrought iron safe. The chest was in the middle ages the furniture par excellence. It was used to store all kinds of objects. For precious objects, the chests were made of iron, as here. These chests were reputed to be inviolable. Inside the cash register, a small cassette, itself locked, was used to store the most secret goods. Made from the seventeenth century, mostly in nuremberg, germany, these riveted iron plate chests were used as mobile safes. They are also called privateer's chests because the captain of the ship screwed it from the bottom into the deck of his cabin in order to store precious objects, money but also documents of great importance - dimensions: - height: 58.5 cm - length: 81.5 cm - width: 37.5 cm - weight: 53.5 kg.