Finely Carved Early Love Token Washing Bat Textiles Finely Carved Early Love Token

Finely Carved Early Love Token Washing Bat

Well Patinated golden coloured  Ash and Elm

Condition: This rare example has massive sculptural thick single board arms with a “crooked” shape reminiscent of the C16th Caqueteuse Armchairs

it is one of the finest we have handled and we have never seen one of this quality outside museum collections

Finely Carved Early Love Token Washing Bat Textiles Finely Carved Early Love TokenFinely Carved Early Love Token Washing Bat With Stylised Heart Terminal to Handle Hand Carved and Polychrome Decorated Solid Birchwood Initialled 'AAD' Norwegian c. 1770 15 high x 7" wide x 1 Ref: 6481 An unusually early example of a finely decorated Love Token washing bat. With a stylised heart form finial to the handle, it is carved with the courted girls initials AAD and dates c. 1770. The face of the blade is comprehensively carved with a monogram