A NORTH EUROPEAN MAHOGANY AND MARQUETRY SECRÈTAIRE Á ABATTANT, crossbanded overall and inlaid with flowers in cartouche shaped panels, with serpentine-fronted breche d'alep marble top, with serpentine front and sides and fall-front inlaid with a swan and fish within foliate borders, enclosing an interior with green leather-lined writing-surface, pigeon-holes and drawers above a pair of doors enclosing a shelf, with waved apron centred by a foliate mount, on cabriole legs with foliate sabots, the reverse with printed carriage label G.W.R. 2 Paddington, repair to marble top, the underside of the marble top inscribed No. 2, second half 19th century