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Traveling Communion Set

Traveling Communion Set

active 1804-c. 1852

Joseph Angell Sr.

British

Comprising communion cup, paten on central foot, and wine container with stopper and screw cap, each piece octagonal with molded borders, engraved with Gothic double-windows against a continuous pattern of brickwork, the front of the chalice bowl and the center of the paten with a cross and the Sacred Monogram within a rayed circular cartouche; the fitted red leather case of tapering straight-side form

Silver, gilt interior; case: leather and velvet

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