A FINE AND RARE INLAID MAHOGANY ARCHITECT'S DESK CIRCA 1790 the hinged top opening to a leather-lined surface with two hinged panels opening to wells, the sides fitted with drawers, the right drawer with its original pen and inkwell handled tray, the whole resting on swing-out front legs centered by a cupboard door, the sides with cupboard doors opening to folio slides on the left, pigeonholes on the right; on casters; the reverse of the central cupboard door with metal label engraved R. D. A. / 8706, the back with metal label engraved R. D. A. / 7165, also with penciled numbers 73/35 and B7619. Losses, repairs. height 37 1/4 in.; width 4 ft. 1 in.; depth 19 in.; depth open 36 1/2 in. 94.6 cm; 124.5 cm; 48.3 cm; 92.7 cm
A FINE AND RARE INLAID MAHOGANY ARCHITECT'S DESK CIRCA 1790 the hinged top opening to a leather-lined surface with two hinged panels opening to wells, the sides fitted with drawers, the right drawer with its original pen and inkwell handled tray, the whole resting on swing-out front legs centered by a cupboard door, the sides with cupboard doors opening to folio slides on the left, pigeonholes on the right; on casters; the reverse of the central cupboard door with metal label engraved R. D. A. / 8706, the back with metal label engraved R. D. A. / 7165, also with penciled numbers 73/35 and B7619. Losses, repairs. height 37 1/4 in.; width 4 ft. 1 in.; depth 19 in.; depth open 36 1/2 in. 94.6 cm; 124.5 cm; 48.3 cm; 92.7 cm
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