A Victorian mahogany pedestal desk
the green leather-lined top with a moulded edge, three frieze drawers and three further graduated drawers to each pedestal, with knob handles and plinth bases, two drawers indistinctly stamped James Winter & Sons, 101, Wardour St. Soho, London, the locks stamped Clarke & Timmins, Birmingham -- 48½in. (123cm.) wide See Illustration
Lot Essay
James Winter is listed as furniture broker, appraiser and undertaker, active between 1823 and 1870. Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, W.S. Maney, 1986.
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