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A FINE WOOTON WALNUT 'CABINET SECRETARY' DESK
Wooton Desk Manufacturing Co., Indianapolis, circa 1880
The top with a (removable) gallery above an upward-opening frieze enclosing paper filing compartments and a pair of deeply projecting doors enclosing a complex fitted interior with a fall-front baize-lined writing surface and various drawers and open compartments, the interior of the left-hand door fully fitted with numerous small compartments arranged around a letter box with a flap-covered slot to its front, the interior of the right-hand door fitted as a cartonnier with boxes in green card, on sled feet with apparently original iron casters, the exterior richly panelled and moulded, the raised panels veneered in contrasting figured wood, the fall and drawer fronts in bird's eye maple, decoratively cast iron fittings hinges and fitting throughout including the false letter slot to the right-hand door cast 'MANUFACTURED BY / WOOTON DESK MAN'F. CO. / INDIANAPOLIS. IND. / W.S. WOOTON'S PATENT. / OCT.6.1874.'
183cm high, 108cm wide, 80cm deep
Wooton Desk Manufacturing Co., Indianapolis, circa 1880
The top with a (removable) gallery above an upward-opening frieze enclosing paper filing compartments and a pair of deeply projecting doors enclosing a complex fitted interior with a fall-front baize-lined writing surface and various drawers and open compartments, the interior of the left-hand door fully fitted with numerous small compartments arranged around a letter box with a flap-covered slot to its front, the interior of the right-hand door fitted as a cartonnier with boxes in green card, on sled feet with apparently original iron casters, the exterior richly panelled and moulded, the raised panels veneered in contrasting figured wood, the fall and drawer fronts in bird's eye maple, decoratively cast iron fittings hinges and fitting throughout including the false letter slot to the right-hand door cast 'MANUFACTURED BY / WOOTON DESK MAN'F. CO. / INDIANAPOLIS. IND. / W.S. WOOTON'S PATENT. / OCT.6.1874.'
183cm high, 108cm wide, 80cm deep
Estimate $7,000 - $10,000
Decorative Arts
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8826
6:00pm - 16 November 2026
Hawthorn
VIEWING
Fri 13 - Sun 15 November, 11am - 5pm
2 Oxley Rd, Hawthorn VIC
CONTACT
Chiara Curcio
decorativearts@leonardjoel.com.au
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