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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A RUSSIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED KARELIAN BIRCH SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT, inlaid overall with ebonised stringing, the canted rectangular top with matching superstructure with a drawer above one long drawer and a fall-front mounted with a crowned double-headed eagle, with a coat-of-arms with a shield above four balls within a laurel wreath, enclosing a fitted interior, with nine drawers and a door above four graduated long drawers, between canted angles on square tapering legs, second quarter 19th Century

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A RUSSIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED KARELIAN BIRCH SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT, inlaid overall with ebonised stringing, the canted rectangular top with matching superstructure with a drawer above one long drawer and a fall-front mounted with a crowned double-headed eagle, with a coat-of-arms with a shield above four balls within a laurel wreath, enclosing a fitted interior, with nine drawers and a door above four graduated long drawers, between canted angles on square tapering legs, second quarter 19th Century
46in. (117cm.) wide; 54½in. (164cm.) high; 23¼in. (59cm.) deep

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The imperial double-headed eagle mount encloses the coat-of-arms of the 'Olonetski government' a district near St. Petersburg (Cf. P.P. von Vinkler, Coats of Arms of Towns and Governments of the Russian Empire, St. Petersburg, 1899, p. xix, fig. 28)