Important Australian Colonial red gum breakfront bookcase to be offered in Adelaide.

By Supplied, on 03-Nov-2017

Scammell Auctions will offer an important Australian Colonial breakfront bookcase in their sale in Adelaide on 27 November, 2017.

This bookcase is possibly a rare example of the use of River Red Gum timber, “Eucalyptus Camaldulensis”, in the manufacture of Australian Colonial furniture.

Scammell Auctions will offer an important Australian Colonial breakfront bookcase in their sale in Adelaide on 27 November, 2017.

Scammell Auctions will offer an important Australian Colonial breakfront bookcase in their sale in Adelaide on 27 November, 2017.

Constructed in the early 19th century, the bookcase is in the English “Regency Gothic” style, fashionable in the 1830’s & 40’s.

A similar design appears in J C Loudon’s, 1833 London edition of his “Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm & Villa Architecture & Furniture”.

Scammell Auctions advises the bookcase has been in the same family for three generations, and is part of an estate from the Adelaide coastal suburb of Semaphore, Glanville.

The Antiques Reporter lists only three antique furniture items in solid red gum being offered over the last 8 years, the most expensive being an oval shaped centre table carved with gum nuts and leaves to the site, which sold for $1,125 (IBP) in 2013.

Price expectations for the bookcase are in excess of $100,000.