AN AUSTRIAN BRASS AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND EBONISED SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT, the rectangular top with moulded edge above a long fitted poplar-lined frieze drawer enclosing two small poplar-lined drawers and flanked by entwined foliage mounts, the fall-front enclosing a fitted interior with black leather-lined writing-surface with drawers and pigeon-holes, with sunflower lockplate and flanked by ebonised columns, above a pair of panelled doors inset with lozenges and centred by sunburst mounts, on square tapering legs and foliate caps, enclosing a cedar-lined interior of three drawers, early 19th Century, the reverse painted F.A. and chalked F.V.