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an empire mahogany secretaire a abattant
The white-veined grey marble top above a moulded border and a frieze drawer, above a hinged fall-front with a tooled green leather-lined writing surface to the reverse and enclosing a fitted interior with an open compartment and six drawers around a door enclosing a plain interior with a base drawer, flanked by detatched thuya columns with engine-turned capitals, above a pair of doors enclosing a plain interior with a shelf, on paw feet, with paper label to the reverse inscribed Factory Staatsspoorwegen/Algemeene Expeditie-Onder..ming/Van Gend & Loos/H. Colignon & Cie/van ... naar Rotterdam/Delftsche Poort, possibly not French, minor restorations
147cm. high x 95cm. wide x 53cm. deep
The white-veined grey marble top above a moulded border and a frieze drawer, above a hinged fall-front with a tooled green leather-lined writing surface to the reverse and enclosing a fitted interior with an open compartment and six drawers around a door enclosing a plain interior with a base drawer, flanked by detatched thuya columns with engine-turned capitals, above a pair of doors enclosing a plain interior with a shelf, on paw feet, with paper label to the reverse inscribed Factory Staatsspoorwegen/Algemeene Expeditie-Onder..ming/Van Gend & Loos/H. Colignon & Cie/van ... naar Rotterdam/Delftsche Poort, possibly not French, minor restorations
147cm. high x 95cm. wide x 53cm. deep