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An early Victorian mahogany cylinder desk
the fall opening to reveal a fitted interior of short drawers and pigeon holes, above racheted leather-lined writing slope flanked by leather-lined surfaces, with three graduated drawers to each pedestal, stamped James Winter & Sons, 101, Wardour Street, Soho, London, lock stamped Hobbs & Co., London -- 59½in. (151cm.) wide
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James Winter & Sons is recorded in The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, Beard & Gilbert, F.H.S. pp. 992-993
the fall opening to reveal a fitted interior of short drawers and pigeon holes, above racheted leather-lined writing slope flanked by leather-lined surfaces, with three graduated drawers to each pedestal, stamped James Winter & Sons, 101, Wardour Street, Soho, London, lock stamped Hobbs & Co., London -- 59½in. (151cm.) wide
See Illustration
James Winter & Sons is recorded in The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, Beard & Gilbert, F.H.S. pp. 992-993