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Lot 209
Antique Lap Desk with Cast Brass Letter Holder
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Early 20th century, the desk built with applied horizontal strips of ebonized wood; the divided interior retains an embossed leather writing surface and ink canister (5.5 x 16.25 x 9 in.) (exterior with break and loss to one horizontal strip and an edge chip); Bradley & Hubbard brass letter holder (No. 3549/7030) featuring hounds chasing stag (rubbing and pitting).

From the Collection of Mary Wells, Greensboro, North Carolina