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Lot 133

A PAIR OF GEORGE IV MAHOGANY LIBRARY BOOKCASES

First half 19th century, in the manner of Gillows, each with a plain rectangular top over a shaped cornice carved with acanthus leaves and foliate bosses above four glazed doors each enclosing four adjustable shelves, flanked by fluted columns with leaf-carved volutes, on a plinth base, 243cm wide, 174cm high (2)

Condition Report: click here
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Hammer price: £6,000
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

These bookcases have inevitable surface wear, minor moulding loss and scratching commensurate with age and use.

In addition, these are the specific areas of damage:

One bookcase has some veneer cracking to top left cornice corner, together with a re-tacked piece of moulding to the left upper side. This bookcase also has a crack to the left door lowest glass pane and a replaced lowest glass pane to the third door from the left. 

The other bookcase has a variety of old patched repairs to the cornice, a diagonal crack across the right door lowest glass pane, together with a piece of veneer chipped and missing to the upper side. 

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