Details
A Regency mahogany and gilt-brass-mounted writing desk, the recessed superstructure with a high-turned gallery and with a panelled fall enclosing alphabetically lettered pigeon holes and flanked by engine-turned column stiles, the frieze drawer enclosing a tooled leather-lined hinged racheted slope (rachet now lost), flanked by a lidded compartment to either side and pen and inkwells, on turned reeded tapering legs with foliate brass caps and castors, stamped Wilkinson. Ludgate Hill 1335, the lock stamped Turners. W. Hampton. Patent -- 48in. (122cm.) wide.
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Further details
William Wilkinson was trading from Ludgate Hill from around 1808 and used this stamp until about 1820.
Some of his furniture was given a serial number and that used here, 1335, is a low and early figure as the number recorded so far range from 6585 to 19562.
See Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840, G Beard and F Gilbert, Maney 1986.
Some of his furniture was given a serial number and that used here, 1335, is a low and early figure as the number recorded so far range from 6585 to 19562.
See Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840, G Beard and F Gilbert, Maney 1986.