ANTIQUE PINE PARTNERS' DESK

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Reference: W12 1001 Partners' Desk Approximate Age: Victorian - Circa 1880 Principal Wood: Pitch Pine Size: 60"(w) x 36"(d) x 29.5"(h) 153cm(w) x 92cm(d) x 75cm(h) Price: £4,750 XE.com Personal Currency Assistant

A medium sized nine drawer, twin cupboard Victorian twin pedestal Antique Partners' Desk in high quality American pitch pine, with excellent original brass castors, handles and locks.  This Partners' Desk dates from c1880.  Overall - a rare genuine Antique Partners' Desk of excellent proportions, quality and originality.

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'**

FEATURES - W12 1001 Antique Pine Partners' Desk

• Traditional Antique Partners' Desk, c 1880 with nine drawers to the front elevation
• Central locking mechanism to all pedestal and all frieze drawers (full working order)
• Twin cupboards to the rear Partners' Desk elevation, both with adjustable and removable shelving
• Bramah locks to both cupboards
• Inset faded black leather writing surface (replacement)
• Blind embossed work to the leather
• High quality original working brass locks and circular escutcheons by Bramah & Co
• Keys for all locks
• Good quality 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 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. Bramah then published his 'Dissertation on the Construction of Locks' in which he detailed the... "Specification of a lock, constructed on a new and infallible principle, which, possessing all the properties essential to security, will prevent the ruinous consequences of house robberies, and will be a certain prevention against thieves of all descriptions" (Butter, F J).

Although we'd like to, Antiquedesks.net cannot offer such a guarantee! For more information about Bramah and other lock makers, see 'Locks and Lockmaking' (2nd edition, 1926) by F J Butter.

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.