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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE BOOKCASE
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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE BOOKCASE

BY GEORGE SIMSON, ST PAUL'S CHURCHYARD LONDON, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE BOOKCASE
BY GEORGE SIMSON, ST PAUL'S CHURCHYARD LONDON, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The upper part with a moulded dentil cornice and fitted with three adjustable shelves enclosed by a pair of glazed astragal panel doors, the fall enclosing a fitted interior with drawers, pigeon holes and central enclosed compartments and with a green tooled leather lined writing surface, with three long drawers below on bracket feet, with three paper labels 'GEORGE SIMSON, UPHOLDER, Cabinet Maker & Undertaker, No.19 South Side of St Paul's Churchyard, LONDON', two of the labels damaged, later handles and locks
89in. (226cm.) high, 49½in. (126cm.) wide, 22½in. (57cm.) deep
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George Simson (d.1839) was established at this address in St Paul's Church Yard in 1787 and continued to trade there until 1839.Simson opened a Piccadilly warehouse in Dover Street in 1793 and subscribed to Thomas Sheraton's Drawing Book and Cabinet Dictionary (The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, Leeds 1986,p.817).
A secretaire bookcase with similar astragals was sold at Christie's King Street,6th July 1995,lot 128 and is illustrated in C.Gilbert,Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840,Leeds,1996,p423,fig.843.