ANTIQUE PITCH PINE PARTNERS DESK

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Reference: 1001 Partners Desk Approximate Age: Victorian - Circa 1880 Principal Wood: Antique Pitch Pine Size: 60"(w) x 36"(d) x 29.5"(h) 153cm(w) x 92cm(d) x 75cm(h) Price: SOLD XE.com Personal Currency Assistant

Superb nine drawer, twin cupboard, Antique Partners Desk in high quality Antique Pitch Pine, with excellent original brass castors, handles and locks.  This Partners' Desk dates from c1880, this date being confirmed by the provenance of the maker (below) and the lock design (below).  Excellent size and proportions.

Please do not confuse this desk with modern pine furniture.  When made, this desk would have been of the very highest quality, rarity and cost.  The investment in the quality brass fittings is testament to how it was presented when new in the 1880's.  This desk remains in superb condition and has a wonderful patina.  The Pitch Pine being extremely hard and durable

The quality of this Partners Desk is evidenced by having drawers stamped by the Victorian cabinet maker: 'S ROBERTSON, MAKER, VAUXHALL, LONDON'

The Bramah locks for each side of the Partners Desk are each identically stamped with a crown and : 'J T NEEDS, 102 PICCADILLY, LATE J BRAMAH, 124 PICCADILLY' - See footnotes below on the history of Bramah locks**.

Overall - a rare genuine Antique Partners' Desk of excellent proportions, quality and originality. 

FEATURES -  1001 Antique Pitch Pine Partners Desk

• Superb Antique Partners Desk, c 1880 with nine drawers to the front elevation
• Twin cupboards to the rear Partners' Desk elevation, both with adjustable and removable shelving
• Inset fine quality black leather writing surface
• Blind embossed work to the leather
• High quality original working brass locks and circular escutcheons by Bramah & Co
• Keys for all locks
• Good quality original brass handles to all drawers
• Large central drawer with twin handles
• Graduated drawers to both pedestals
• Hand-cut dovetail joints to the moulded-front drawers
• Brass castors recessed to both pedestals
• London cabinet maker's stamp to the top edge of two pedestal and two frieze drawers.

DIMENSIONS - W12 1001 Antique Pitch Pine Partners Desk

• Width = 60" (153cm). Depth = 36" (92cm)
• Kneehole width (measured between pedestals) = 23.5" (60cm)
• Sitting height (floor to the bottom of the frieze)  = 24" (61cm)
• Writing surface height from floor = 29.5" (75cm)
• Cupboard widths (internal) = 16" (41cm)
• Cupboard internal depths (front to back) = 11" (28cm)
• Cupboard heights = 17" (43cm)
• Pedestal drawer widths (internal) = 15" (38cm)
• Pedestal drawer internal depths (front to back) = 23" (58cm)
• Central drawer width (internal) = 22" (56cm)
• Central drawer internal depths (front to back) = 23" (58cm)
• All frieze drawer heights = 3" (7.5cm).

** The Georgian Joseph Bramah from Yorkshire, first patented a lock design in the April of 1784.  The lock-making firm of Bramah & Co were taken over by J T Needs in 1874. J T Needs held Royal Warrants from Queen Victoria and sold the business to the Whitfield Safe & Lock Company in 1901. High quality locks marked with the Joseph Bramah registered trade mark are still being made today.

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