A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY AND EBONISED WRITING-TABLE by James Mein of Kelso, the rectangular black leather-lined top above two mahogany-lined frieze drawers and two simulated drawers, on rectangular end supports inlaid with a panel and with foliate scroll angles, each with plinth base and scroll feet, with indistinct cabinet-maker's label CARPETS GILDING RUGS/James.....ein/Cabinet Maker/.../... UNDERTAKER, the drawers previously but not originally fitted 43in. (109.5cm.) wide; 29¾in. (75.5cm.) high; 25in. (63cm.) deep

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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY AND EBONISED WRITING-TABLE by James Mein of Kelso, the rectangular black leather-lined top above two mahogany-lined frieze drawers and two simulated drawers, on rectangular end supports inlaid with a panel and with foliate scroll angles, each with plinth base and scroll feet, with indistinct cabinet-maker's label CARPETS GILDING RUGS/James.....ein/Cabinet Maker/.../... UNDERTAKER, the drawers previously but not originally fitted 43in. (109.5cm.) wide; 29¾in. (75.5cm.) high; 25in. (63cm.) deep

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The label is recognisably that of the cabinet-maker James Mein Senior of Kelso who died in 1830. Several pieces supplied by him to the Duke of Roxburghe, Floors Castle, Kelso, were sold Christie's house sale, 17 September 1990, lots 133-149. A photograph of an undamaged example of this label is shown with lot 142

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