A Victorian coromandel desk-top writing box

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A Victorian coromandel desk-top writing box
with drop slope and rising cover, applied with gilt-bronze monogram and lockplate, the interior with racks and two gilt-metal-mounted inkwells to the rear flanking a pen trough, fitted with leather-bound cash book and daily journal, with button release to an extending compartmented section below, stamped BETJEMANNS PATENT and number 339 -- 14½in.(36.5cm.) wide

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