banco dei pegni - please see context

English translation: pawn counter

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Italian term or phrase:banco dei pegni - please see context
English translation:pawn counter
Entered by: manducci

15:14 May 21, 2016
Italian to English translations [PRO]
History / banking
Italian term or phrase: banco dei pegni - please see context
I am having difficulty understanding the following passage concerning exhibits in a museum. From what I was aware, a "banco dei pegni"is a pawn shop/pawn brokers... and yet from the following description it would seem that it also refers to a piece of furniture ... could this be a display cabinet for displaying goods in a pawn shop? I guess it must be but thanks to anyone who can confirm this.

Context - a description concerning artifacts in a museum

Sentence:

Nella sala è esposto anche il Banco dei pegni originalmente realizzato per il Monte di Pietà di Cividale. Il mobile si colloca nella tradizione settecentesca nella quale predomina una delicata policroma con decori fantasiosi secondo l’estetismo rococò.
in a museum
manducci
Local time: 03:48
pawn counter
Explanation:
I can't see any alternative. I believe that following many many mergers, that same bank is now part of the UBI Group which still has a pawn bank in many cities including one under the BPCI brand in viale Certosa in Milan. This piece of furniture is clearly the "bancone" or counter inside the bank, while the first banks in Italy were of course just the "banchi" in the street.
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James (Jim) Davis
Seychelles
Local time: 05:48
Grading comment
Thanks, Jim. Thanks too to Barbara.
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James (Jim) Davis


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pawn counter


Explanation:
I can't see any alternative. I believe that following many many mergers, that same bank is now part of the UBI Group which still has a pawn bank in many cities including one under the BPCI brand in viale Certosa in Milan. This piece of furniture is clearly the "bancone" or counter inside the bank, while the first banks in Italy were of course just the "banchi" in the street.

James (Jim) Davis
Seychelles
Local time: 05:48
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 73
Grading comment
Thanks, Jim. Thanks too to Barbara.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Shabelula: si si si !!!!!!
1 hr

agree  Anita M. A. Mazzoli
6 hrs

agree  Barbara Carrara: The description clearly refers to a 'mobile'. so no doubt there ('policroma' should read 'policromia', though). Ciao, Jim!
9 hrs
  -> Ciao Barbara!

agree  Peter Cox
1 day 17 hrs
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