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Auction House:
Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.
Number of lots recorded:24
Lots with images:24
Prices available:24
Category:
Desks - Secretaires and Bureaux
LotDescriptionPriceImage
*** An antique French bonheur du jour lady's bureau desk, ebony inlaid with ivory and turtle shell, 18th century, 168 cm high, 77 cm wide, 48 cm deep ***
*** A fine Anglo-Chinese secretaire campaign chest, camphor wood with solid ebony mouldings and string inlay, handsomely fitted top drawer with Bramah locks, 19th century, 128 cm high, 113 cm wide, 52 cm deep ***
*** A fine English walnut bureau, handsomely fitted interior with compartments and drawers, mid to late 18th century, 104 cm high, 89 cm wide, 51 cm deep ***
*** An antique English mahogany apprentice bureau with fall front, 19th/20th century, 46 cm high, 45 cm wide, 25 cm deep ***
*** An early provincial Colonial bureau, cedar and Baltic pine, Tasmanian origin, circa 1840, rare. 93 cm high, 101 cm wide, 46 cm deep. Provenance: The Rodney Pemberton Collection ***
*** A French bombe secretaire, marquetry kingwood with marble top, 19th century, 85 cm high, 93 cm wide, 47 cm deep ***
*** An antique English burr walnut and boxwood marquetry inlay music cabinet with secretaire top compartment, leather tooled writing surface and handsomely fitted interior, late 19th century, 99 cm high, 61 cm wide, 40 cm deep ***
*** An 18th century North Italian marquetry walnut bureau / wine servery interior has been altered to accommodate bottles (most likely in the 19th century) 112 cm high, 123 cm wide, 59 cm deep ***
*** A Georgian mahogany drop-front bureau, early 19th century, 103 cm high, 91 cm wide, 52 cm deep ***
*** A Georgian oak fall front bureau with fitted compartments, 18th century, 104 cm high, 92 cm wide, 48 cm deep ***
*** A Georgian mahogany fall front writing desk with ring turned legs, early 19th century, 136 cm high, 103 cm wide, 55 cm deep ***
*** A fine Scottish secretaire desk, flame mahogany, fitted with pull out desk and drawers and compartments, 19th century, 133 cm high, 120 cm wide, 55 cm deep ***
*** Harry Goldman Australian Arts & Crafts bureau, fiddleback blackwood with metal handles, circa 1920s, maker's ink stamp inside the drawer, 124 cm high, 74 cm wide, 40 cm deep ***
*** A Georgian bureau, flame mahogany with bone escutcheons, circa 1810, 111 cm high, 102 cm wide, 50 cm deep ***
*** Charles Lever (1806 - 1872) collection of fourteen volumes uniformly bound in half-calf with red and green titles to spines; marbled boards. All illustrated by 'Phiz' (Hablot Knight Browne), better known for his illustrations of Charles Dickens' works.… ***
*** Charles Dickens, 'A Christmas Carol in Prose being a Ghost story of Christmas.', with illustrations by John leech, [London; Chapman & Hall, 1843], 3rd edition, 166pp + 2 adverts.;, contemporary cloth binding with gilt title to upper board. 'Stave One' as… ***
*** Pickwick papers - the Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club': by Charles Dickens, first edition published by Chapman & Hall (London, 1837) with etched plates by Seymour and Phiz including. Frontispiece by Phiz, some foxing to end pages otherwise good… ***
*** A French bureau de dame ladies desk, kingwood with marquetry inlay, late 19th century 98 cm high, 73 cm wide, 52 cm deep ***
*** Harry Goldman Australian Arts and Crafts bureau, fiddleback blackwood with metal handles, circa 1920s maker's ink stamp inside the drawer 124 cm high, 74 cm wide, 40 cm deep ***
*** A Colonial secretaire, Australian cedar, fitted with huon pine drawers, Tasmanian origin, 19th century 120 cm high, 120 cm wide, 53 cm deep ***
*** A Sheraton Revival mahogany bureau with marquetry shell cartouche, circa 1900, 93 cm high, 75 cm wide, 110 cm deep ***
*** Mostly British cigarette, trade & swap cards in shoebox with part sets including. Wills c.1908 Australian & British scenes, c.1910 Australian Schools/Colleges Crests & colours, 1913 Royal Mail (reasonably complete), other themes noted including. Ancient… ***
*** An oak Arts & Crafts bureau, early 20th century, 118 cm high, 84 cm wide, 25 cm deep ***
*** Charles Dickens & his characters: a series of five embossed copper portraits, in matching English oak frames, all 16 x 16 cm. Depicted are Dickens, Micawber, Pickwick, Sam Weller and Captain Cuttle. (5 items). ***