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AN EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY PARTNER'S WRITING TABLE
Lot 325

AN EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY PARTNER'S WRITING TABLE

BY GILLOWS, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed27 January 2015

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GBP 1,750

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY PARTNER'S WRITING TABLE
BY GILLOWS, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The moulded rectangular top with inset leather writing surface, and two frieze drawers to each side, stamped GILLOWS LANCASTER, the castors stamped COPE & COLLINSON / PATENT / STRONG, signed in pencil to the underside of one drawer E. Simpson
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 54 in. (137 cm.) wide; 33 ¾ in. (86 cm.) deep

Specialist note

The signature must be that of either Edmund or Edward Simpson, both of whom were working for the firm at this time and are recorded by Susan Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, London, 2008, vol. 2, pp. 281-282.