SB-701 · Furniture

Federal inlaid mahogany secretary

c. 1805 · New England

$285,000

One of one. Price is firm unless Sally says otherwise in person.

A secretary with a fitted desk, glazed bookcase, and bellflower inlay on the legs. It came out of a Grosse Pointe library that was being divided among three cousins. Sally has the bill of sale from that house and will show it.

Materials

Mahogany, satinwood and ebony inlay, pine secondary

Size

84 in high · 42 in wide · 22 in deep

Condition

The fall front still locks. Two interior pigeonhole dividers are old replacements, labeled as such. The finish is the one it has had for decades, not a fresh French polish.