Live Auction 10660Christie's Interiors - Style & Spirit
A VICTORIAN GILT-BRASS DESK STAND MODELLED AS A MINIATURE COACH
Lot 596

A VICTORIAN GILT-BRASS DESK STAND MODELLED AS A MINIATURE COACH

RETAILED BY ORTNER & HOULE LONDON, CIRCA 1885

Closed16 September 2015

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GBP 3,500

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A VICTORIAN GILT-BRASS DESK STAND MODELLED AS A MINIATURE COACH
RETAILED BY ORTNER & HOULE LONDON, CIRCA 1885
The hinged roof opening to a glass inkwell, inscribed ORTNER & HOULE, 3, ST JAMES'S ST, flanked by a recessed vesta case and stamp box, further compartments beneath the driver's seat and the postillion, the opening doors decorated with enamel 'TG' monograms, fitted with leather seats and removable coach lamps, on oak plinth
17 ½ in. (45 cm.) long including front rod, 9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

Similar desk stands modelled as stagecoaches, but fitted as humidors by Walter Thornhill & Co, New Bond Street, were sold at Christie's London, 14th November 1996, and in these rooms, 12 June 2002.
A Thornhill advertisement in a coaching journal, dated May 1892, announces their new registered Smoking Companion in the form of the 'Old Times' coach. It appears possible that the coaches offered by Thornhill and this one by Ortner & Haule were manufactured by Messrs. Henry Lewis and Co., jewellers, of 172 New Bond Street.