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Lot 120
A GEORGE III-STYLE MAHOGANY LIBRARY DESK
MID-20TH CENTURY, INCORPORATING 19TH CENTURY ELEMENTS
Closed15 April 2021
Price Realised
GBP 7,500
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A GEORGE III-STYLE MAHOGANY LIBRARY DESK
MID-20TH CENTURY, INCORPORATING 19TH CENTURY ELEMENTS
The gilt-tooled green leather top inset with four brass slots engraved for bills, receipts, etc., the front with an arrangement of seven drawers about a kneehole, the opposing side with two cupboards, on bracket feet and with side carrying handles, the drawers apparently 19th century and reused; together with a Victorian Anglo-Indian rosewood desk chair, third quarter 19th century covered with buttoned tan-leather
The desk: 30 ¾ in. (78 cm.) high; 57 ¼ in. (145.5 cm.) wide; 37 in. (94 cm.) deep
MID-20TH CENTURY, INCORPORATING 19TH CENTURY ELEMENTS
The gilt-tooled green leather top inset with four brass slots engraved for bills, receipts, etc., the front with an arrangement of seven drawers about a kneehole, the opposing side with two cupboards, on bracket feet and with side carrying handles, the drawers apparently 19th century and reused; together with a Victorian Anglo-Indian rosewood desk chair, third quarter 19th century covered with buttoned tan-leather
The desk: 30 ¾ in. (78 cm.) high; 57 ¼ in. (145.5 cm.) wide; 37 in. (94 cm.) deep
A GEORGE III-STYLE MAHOGANY LIBRARY DESK
MID-20TH CENTURY, INCORPORATING 19TH CENTURY ELEMENTS
The gilt-tooled green leather top inset with four brass slots engraved for bills, receipts, etc., the front with an arrangement of seven drawers about a kneehole, the opposing side with two cupboards, on bracket feet and with side carrying handles, the drawers apparently 19th century and reused; together with a Victorian Anglo-Indian rosewood desk chair, third quarter 19th century covered with buttoned tan-leather
The desk: 30 ¾ in. (78 cm.) high; 57 ¼ in. (145.5 cm.) wide; 37 in. (94 cm.) deep
MID-20TH CENTURY, INCORPORATING 19TH CENTURY ELEMENTS
The gilt-tooled green leather top inset with four brass slots engraved for bills, receipts, etc., the front with an arrangement of seven drawers about a kneehole, the opposing side with two cupboards, on bracket feet and with side carrying handles, the drawers apparently 19th century and reused; together with a Victorian Anglo-Indian rosewood desk chair, third quarter 19th century covered with buttoned tan-leather
The desk: 30 ¾ in. (78 cm.) high; 57 ¼ in. (145.5 cm.) wide; 37 in. (94 cm.) deep
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