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A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY ASTRONOMER'S CHAIR
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A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY ASTRONOMER'S CHAIR

THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, LABEL OF W.CALLAGHAN

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A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY ASTRONOMER'S CHAIR
THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, LABEL OF W.CALLAGHAN
The shaped back with a pierced top rail, extending to a low scroll seat on sycamore X-frame supports, bearing an oval plate 'W.Callaghan, 28a New Bond S, Registered London January 15th 1873', the underside of the seat stamped 'JF'
26¾in. (68cm.) high
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Please note the description for this lot should read W. Callaghan and not V. Callaghan as catalogued

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Wm Callaghan is listed as an optician in London directories between 1866 and 1892.Several of these chairs are known to exist and it seems to be accepted that they are probably for use with a telescope,although a similar chair illustrated in Architectural Review Decoration Supplement, July 1937 from the Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition Depicting British Country Life....is described as a cherry sorter's chair.C.Gilbert,Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall 1998,in which a similar chair with the Callaghan label is illustrated and described fig.712,p 591-2.