BY GILLOWS, DATED 1821

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A GEORGE IV SIMULATED ROSEWOOD MAHOGANY AND ROSEWOOD WATERFALL BOOKCASE
BY GILLOWS, DATED 1821
With reeded galleried top above open shelves and a frieze drawer with turned hanldes, pencil inscription to the underside 'Thos. Whiteside Lancaster 1821', indistinct initials to underside of base, on turned feet
43½ in. (110.5 cm.) high; 25 in. (63.5 cm.) wide; 12¾ in. (32.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

There are two Thomas Whitesides listed as journeyman by Susan Stuart (see Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730 - 1840, Volume II,Woodbridge, 2008, p.297). The first, Thomas was born in 1802, the nephew of Edward Whiteside, cabinet maker of Oxford Street and was apprenticed, aged fourteen, to L. Redmayne on 5.8.1816, the other was the son of Thomas of Thurnham, near Lancaster and also apprenticed to L. Redmayne on 21.6.1819.

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