Sale 1931
New York
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17 - 18 July 2007
Price realised
USD 12,000
Estimate
This lot is offered without a reserve
A MATCHED PAIR OF SILVERED STAMPED TIN WRITING TABLES LATE 19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY SPANISH Each with pointed cartouche-form top inset with suede or leather above a frieze with silver tin armorials and applied coats-of-arms raised on block and ring-turned legs terminating in a pair of legs modeled as the legs of knight's armor and united by a turned barley-twist stretcher, some bosses on the top border are missing, scattered repairs throughout 31½ in. (80 cm.) high, 34½ in. (87.5 cm.) wide, 23 1/2 in. (60 cm.) deep (2)
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