Lot Essay
W.H. Martin, Esq., Hiltown Hall, Hastings
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A MAHOGANY PEDESTAL DESK
#he moulded rectangular green leather-lined top with hinged ratchetted compartment above three mahogany-lined frieze drawers and three simulated drawers to the reverse, supported on pedestals each with three mahogany-lined graduated drawers and with raised moulded cut-cornered panels with patera angles to the reverse, on a later moulded stepped spreading plinth with castors, restorations and probably re-backed, the locks stamped J.T.NEEDS 100 NEW BOND STREET LATE J BRAMAH 126 PICCADILY, with carrying-handles, basically late 18th Century, inscribed W.H. Martin Hiltown Hall Hastings Sept. 1896 714LN
54in. (137cm.) wide; 31½in. (80cm.) high; 30in. (76cm.) deep
#he moulded rectangular green leather-lined top with hinged ratchetted compartment above three mahogany-lined frieze drawers and three simulated drawers to the reverse, supported on pedestals each with three mahogany-lined graduated drawers and with raised moulded cut-cornered panels with patera angles to the reverse, on a later moulded stepped spreading plinth with castors, restorations and probably re-backed, the locks stamped J.T.NEEDS 100 NEW BOND STREET LATE J BRAMAH 126 PICCADILY, with carrying-handles, basically late 18th Century, inscribed W.H. Martin Hiltown Hall Hastings Sept. 1896 714LN
54in. (137cm.) wide; 31½in. (80cm.) high; 30in. (76cm.) deep