Sale 1500
New York
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15 April 2005
Price realised
USD 38,400
Estimate
A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY STOOLS CIRCA 1770 Each serpentine seat upholstered in a buttoned beige silk with rosette centered channeled rails on partial sunflower-capped turned and stop-fluted tapering legs, one stamped H, each inscribed in black ink 2955 18 in. (46 cm.) high, 22 in. (56 cm.) wide, 15 in. (38 cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
with Stair and Company, New York.
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Pre-Lot Text
A COLLECTION FROM A NEW YORK TOWNHOUSE (LOTS 213-263)
The library of the novelist included a translation by a brilliant young mathematician that foresaw the age of computing
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