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    Sale 7013

    PROPERTY FROM TWO DUCAL COLLECTIONS, WOBURN ABBEY, BEDFORD

    Woburn Abbey

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    20 - 21 September 2004

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    • A SET OF FIVE GEORGE III MAHOG
    Lot 46

    A SET OF FIVE GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-TABLE PEDESTALS

    CIRCA 1790

    Price realised

    GBP 41,825

    Estimate

    GBP 2,500 - GBP 4,000

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    A SET OF FIVE GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING-TABLE PEDESTALS
    CIRCA 1790
    Each with four channelled sabre legs and brass-capped castors, lacking tops, one pedestal with smaller splay to legs, probably an end pedestal
    Each - 27½ in. (77 cm.) high (5)

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    Lot Essay

    In 1791, John Kerr received 28.0.0 from His Grace the Duke of Bedford for 'A Range of elegant Mahogy Dining Tables fitted up with the best double Spring Catches on 3 wheeled Brass Castors', but this was destined for Bedford House, London according to an annotation in the margin.

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