Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers
Lot 1132
MAPLE & CO; a lady's cylinder topped writing desk, the three-quarter brass gallery above urn and scroll inlaid cylinder activated by the lower pull-out drawer and revealing an interior of compartments and three drawers with inlaid hinged surface enclosing a tooled brown leather interior and raised on square section tapering legs united by an undertier and raised on spade feet, stamped to drawer, height 91cm, width 75cm, depth 50cm.Provenance: From a private Worcestershire collection.Additional InformationThe action is slightly stiff with the cylinder and the drawer and there is a vertical scratch to the cylinder, where presumably something is catching through the action. The brass gallery is lifting slightly in parts, but this is an easy fix. Light general surface scratches, a 5cm section of ebony stringing missing to the undertier. Some slight lifting of the inlaid stringing in parts, with a further 3cm section missing to the upper part of a leg, with a couple of possible old repairs to the stringing. One small bruise to the side, but overall of good colour. This is our advice only - the pattern is still visible beneath the scratch, it appears to mostly be a veneer loss. We cannot say if this will be invisible when attended to by a professional restorer, the piece will be monitered during auction viewing.
