Details
A late Victorian pedestal desk
the rectangular green leather inset top above two slides and three frieze drawers with moulded edge, raised on bowsided panelled pedestals with swivelling sections revealing two lacewood fitted interiors, one with an arrangement of drawers, the other with pigeon holes and document compartments, both raised on a plinth base, bearing label The "Shannon" desk, Shannon File Company Ltd, Ropemaker Street, London -- 60in. (153cm.) wide
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the rectangular green leather inset top above two slides and three frieze drawers with moulded edge, raised on bowsided panelled pedestals with swivelling sections revealing two lacewood fitted interiors, one with an arrangement of drawers, the other with pigeon holes and document compartments, both raised on a plinth base, bearing label The "Shannon" desk, Shannon File Company Ltd, Ropemaker Street, London -- 60in. (153cm.) wide
See Illustration
Provenance
William Hillman, Coventry, Founder of Hillman Motor Cars and thence by descent