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Reference: W31 Approximate Age: Victorian Principal Wood: Mahogany Size: 60"(w) x 48"(d) x 30.25"(h) 153cm(w) x 122cm(d) x 77cm(h) Price: £5,200 XE.com Personal Currency Assistant

A Victorian mahogany partners' desk, with an old (possibly original) faded leather in green, with shelved cupboards and six drawers to both the front and rear elevations:

FEATURES

• Wide central drawers above the kneeholes
• Removable central shelf to both cupboards
• Old faded green leather writing surface inset to the moulded edge top
• Blind embossed work and faded gold tooling to the leather
• Brass lever locks and keyhole liners to all drawers and cupboards, all with keys
• Brass swan neck handles to the moulded drawers
• Original wheeled castors recessed to both pedestal plinths
• Hinged leathered writing slope to one of the small frieze drawers (see photos)
• Graduated drawers to both pedestals
• Hand-cut dovetail joints to all drawers
• Plain polished finish to the inner and outer pedestal sides
• Panelled doors to both cupboards.

DIMENSIONS

• Width = 60" (153cm). Depth = 48" (122cm)
• Kneehole width (measured between pedestals) = 26" (66cm)
• Sitting or kneehole height (floor to the bottom of the frieze)  = 24" (61cm)
• Writing surface height from floor = 30.25" (77cm)
• Cupboard widths (internal) = 12" (30cm)
• Cupboard internal depths (front to back) = 18" (46cm)
• Cupboard heights = 17" (43cm)
• Pedestal drawer widths (internal) = 12" (30cm)
• Pedestal drawer internal depths (front to back) = 20" (51cm)
• Central drawer widths (internal) = 25.5" (65cm)
• Central drawer internal depths (front to back) = 20" (51cm)
• All frieze drawer heights = 2.75" (7cm).