Content: Wrought iron over wood; with lock and with rings to hold a carrying strap.
Biographical/historical: Cofferets or caskets of this type are known to have been used as dispatch or book boxes. For discussion and for pictures of two similar iron boxes, cf. Kup, K. Notes on a fifteenth-century cofferet. (In: The Connoisseur. London. v. 140 (1957) p. 62-66)
