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A Victorian burr-walnut piano top davenport
with a hinged fret-carved gallery above a rising stationery compartment with further fret-carved decoration, the sliding writing surface with a leather-lined ratcheted writing slope and two drawers, with four further drawers to the right-hand side and opposing false drawers, on a shaped raised plinth base with pierced scrolled corbels and bun feet with inset castors, minor losses to the fret-carving, the mechanism faulty -- 23in. (58cm.) wide
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with a hinged fret-carved gallery above a rising stationery compartment with further fret-carved decoration, the sliding writing surface with a leather-lined ratcheted writing slope and two drawers, with four further drawers to the right-hand side and opposing false drawers, on a shaped raised plinth base with pierced scrolled corbels and bun feet with inset castors, minor losses to the fret-carving, the mechanism faulty -- 23in. (58cm.) wide
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