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	Pine Pew, 4 Matching Available F156 Original, quality, pine church pew circa 1880, in the original varnish finish. These very sturdy pews came from a Methodist chapel in Berkshire, are in super condition and, although freestanding, one end of each pew has an unfinished surface. All is complete and in good order. 70" x 36" tall x 17.5" front to back and 17.5" tall to seat top. Price is for each. A further run of identical, but longer pews may be available, reference code F155. Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £150.00


Pine Pew, 10 Matching Available F155 Original, quality, pine church pew circa 1880, in the original varnish finish. These very sturdy pews came from a Methodist chapel in Berkshire, are in super condition and, although freestanding, one end of each pew has an unfinished surface. All is complete and in good order. 114" x 36" tall x 17.5" front to back and 17.5" tall to seat top. Price is for each. A further run of identical, but shorter pews may be available, reference code F156. Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £100.00


	Stripped Pine Dresser Base F152 Original, quality, 18th or early 19th Century, stripped pine dresser base with two long and two short drawers, over three doors. The interior has one long shelf half way up and, although the sides are panelled, the back is open from below the drawers as it always has been and there is no floor boarding, again, there never has been. The knobs on the doors are replacements, as is the infill to the top where the plate rack was fitted and all has been well worm treated when stripping with caustic. This example is very original with a super warm colour and is generally complete and in good order. 69.5" long, 34.5" tall and 17.75" front to back. Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £875.00


Bamboo Bookshelf Cabinet F151 Original, quality, late 19th Century, scorched bamboo, floor standing bookcase with three shelves. The top, sides, shelves and inside back are covered in the original rush and all is complete and in good order, very firm and absolutely no signs of woodworm. Top 30" wide and 15" front to back, body 23" x 12.5" front to back and total 39.5" tall. Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £325.00


	Bamboo Bookshelf Unit F150 Original, quality, late 19th Century, scorched bamboo, three tier bookshelf, with the original rush covered shelves and the top button mounts. Complete and in super condition and absolutely no signs of woodworm. 29.5" tall at back, 20" wide and 6.5" front to back. 24" tall at front. Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £185.00


Ash Wardrobe and Dressing Chest Pair F149 Original, quality, late 19th Century, single ash wardrobe and matching dressing chest in the original finish and with all the original brass fittings. The dressing chest has two short drawers over two long for the main body, with a swing mirror above with an arched top bevelled mirror. The wardrobe has a hinged central door with an arched top bevelled mirror, over a large drawer to the base, the top cornice is fixed and of an unusual form and, apart from the drawer sliding out and perhaps the door off its hinges, the wardrobe is all in one piece. The mirror on the dressing chest will lift off for travelling. A super bedroom pair, circa 1880, as clean inside as out. The wardrobe is fairly shallow in depth and therefore, has been fitted with two front to back rails for hanging, instead of the customary left to right rail. All is complete and in good order. Wardrobe: 80.5" tall, 18" front to back cornice, 39" wide cornice, main body 16.5" front to back and 36" wide. Drawer chest: 35.5" wide, 20" front to back, 31.5" tall to work surface and 62.5" tall to top of mirror. Price is for the pair. Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £900.00


	Pair of Pitch Pine Chest of Drawers F148 A pair of original, quality, late 19th Century, pitch pine chests of drawers, with off white marble tops and replacement white ceramic knobs. Each chest has two short drawers over two long, a plinth to the base inset with castors and a marble slab to the top, fixed with two countersunk brass screws. Although the knobs are later replacements, the marble slabs appear to have always been on these chests and we do not feel these to be an alteration. Apart from some very minor stains to the marble tops and joint shrinkage splits to the sides of the chests, all is complete and in superb order and very unusual to find a pair of chests. Each: 37.5" tall, 32.25" wide and 19" front to back including marble top. Price is for the pair. Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £850.00


Walnut Side Cabinet F147 Original, quality, late 19th Century, walnut side cabinet with a central shelf to the interior, a hinged door and a drawer above. The two sides and the door have multi fielded panels and the front edges of the uprights have stop champer. The original brass fittings to the drawer and door have been polished and lacquered and all has been refinished. The key is a replacement made to suit and, apart from some staining to the shelf and inside floor, all is complete and in good order. 39" high, 19.5" wide and 13.75" front to back. Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £385.00


	Smoker's Bow Chair F146 Original, quality, mid 19th Century, smoker's bow chair of an unusual, delicate form. The seat is from a superbly grained piece of elm and the rest is in fruitwood, with only six spindles supporting the back rest and arms, and good chunky turned legs. The front ends of the arms have super curled back ends, and good repairs have been made to two of the legs and one stretcher. A great looker, very comfortable and now complete and in good and working order. 28" high at back, 17" high at top of seat, 26" wide at ends of arms, 22" front to back and 23" wide on floor front legs. Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £350.00


Pine Country Stool F145 Original, quality, late 19th Century, pine, four legged country stool, stripped, well worm treated and wax finished. All is complete and in good order. A super sturdy, low stool with wedge fitted, octagonal legs. Top 15" x 9", spread on floor 16.5" x 11" and 14.5" high. Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £65.00


	2 Similar Walnut Bedside Cupboards F141 Two similar, walnut bedside cabinets, circa 1880. Both have the same handed hinged doors, each with vertical reeded decoration and both have brass drop loop catch handles and a removable shelf. Some minor worm holes to the floor of one, which has been well treated and all is now complete and in good order. Not a pair, but good lookers. Both 30.5" to top surface, 1 x 14.5" and 1 x 15" width of top surface, both with 3" top mounts and both approximately 14" front to back. Price is for the pair. Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £650.00


Bamboo Side Cabinet F138 Original, quality, late 19th Century stunning bamboo side cabinet, with an integral Music Canterbury. The three laquered panels are decorated in designs of birds and foliage, and each end section of bamboo is finished in a pressed brass end plate. Most important of all, the four legs are fitted with brass capped feet, stamped with the name of the maker, W.F Meechams Patent Metal Jointed Bamboo Furniture. All is complete and in good order. 47.5" high, 23" width of main body, 25" wide at front feet and 13.75" front to back. Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £685.00


	Cast Iron Pub Table with Mahogany Top F136 Original, quality, late 19th Century cast iron table base with an original, circular mahogany top. The base has three leg sections with a central adjoining shelf, all in an aesthetic movement design, and is embossed to the underside with the registration number for the year 1890. The cast iron has been stove enamelled gloss black and the mahogany refinished. An unusual of a cast iron pub table, complete and in good order. Top 24" and 29" high, 20" diameter spread of feet. Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £385.00


Marble Topped Pub Table F135 Original, quality cast iron pub table base, circa 1900, with an off white and veined circular marble top with a bevelled edge. The round, cast iron base has three supports, a central adjoining shelf and has the figure of Bodicea with a shield of the Union Jack to the legs, each with a lions paw to the foot. The cast iron table has been cleaned and stove enamelled black. All is complete and in good and working order. A superb pub table or occasional table, ideal for indoor or outdoor use. Top 27.5" diameter, total 30" high and 20" diameter spread of feet. Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £485.00


	Pitch Pine Table F131 Original, quality, late 19th century, superb 6'9 long kitchen/dining table in pitch pine. This superb table has four slender turned legs and the original brass castors with brown ceramic wheels. A perfect table height for eating at and sitting under; will sit eight comfortably. A good firm table, complete and in good order. 81" x 39.5", total height 30.5", height beneath skirt 25.5". Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £750.00


Elm and Fruitwood Oxford Chair F129 Original, quality, superb 19th century country Oxford kitchen chair in elm and fruitwood. The seat, legs, stretcher and uprights are in elm and the very unusual cross splat and top rail are in fruitwood, both with matching turned medallion design. A super original colour, complete and in good and working order. 18" to top of seat. 33" total height.16.5" wide on floor and 16.5" front to back on floor. Click on photo for a larger and other views Price: £185.00


	Stripped Pine Chest of Drawers F128 Original, quality, late 19th century superb, stripped pine chest of two long and 2 short drawers with stained sycamore knobs and the original splashback gallery to the top rear. This chest is exceptional for the front corners are rounded on all aspects and has always had this configuration of drawers. A great looker with not a plywood panel to be seen, complete and in good and working order. 30" tall to work surface 33" tall with splashback. 38" wide x 19" front to back. Click on photo for a larger and other views Price: £385.00


Small Stripped Pine Box F98 Original quality, 19th century, very small stripped pine trunk with the original lock and key and a feint tracing of 'Weights' in upper case to the front. All is complete and in good order.14.5" x 8" x 8.25" front to back. Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £85.00


	3 Tier Mahogany Palm Stand F82 Original quality mahogany palm stand, circa 1900, with three tiers mounted on four square form legs, all in a super clean finish. A good retailer's label is still fixed to the underside of the top tier detailing 'Goodyer's, 155 New Bond Street, 174 Regent Street, 326 Oxford Street and 114 Brompton Road'. Unusual for a palm stand of this form to have three tiers. Complete and in good order. 47.5" high, top 12" square and 13.5" spread of legs on floor. Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £185.00


Ash Bookshelf F78 Original quality, late 19th century, wall hanging or free standing book shelf with three shelves and decorative shaped side panels in quality ash, fitted with three brass mirror brackets to take countersunk screws for mounting to the wall. A super shelf unit with a very clean finish retaining the good original colour. Manufactured around 1880. 28" high x 24" wide x 6" front to back. Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £230.00


	4ft 6in Iron Bedstead BB15 Original, quality, mid to late 19th Century, 4ft 6in wide, standard double, wrought iron bedstead, with cast iron mounts, castors with turned hardwood wheels and the original pair of side irons. The bed and side irons have been stove enamelled white and will take a standard 6ft 3in x 4ft 6in bedbase and mattress, which are not included, otherwise all is complete and in good and working order. Head end 43.5" high, foot end 40.5" high and total bed set up 79" x 54". Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £365.00


Winfield Brass and Iron Bedstead BB11 Original, quality, early to mid 19th century 3'6" wide large single brass and iron bedstead manufactured by Winfield and Son of London and Birmingham. There is no question this company manufactured beds of the highest quality and produced exceptional beds for clients of royal standing, maharajahs and the like. This example is simple by those standards but still very unusual in its form. The brass pillars, legs, curved top rails and top finials in matching rope twist brass are all polished and laquered and the ironwork has been stove enamelled white. The pair of original side irons have been lengthened and the bedstead will now take a standard modern 6'3" x 3'6" matress. The foot end has the original brass maker plate detailing R.W. Winfield and Son, Patentees and Manufacturers. A super looking and very useable bed. Complete and in good and working order. Head end 49" x 42.5", foot end 41" x 42.5", side bars 75.5" x 4" x 2", total when set up for use 79" x 42.5". Click on photo for a larger and other views Price: £750.00


	3ft Brass & Iron Bedstead B1 Original quality single iron bedstead, with brass fittings and the pair of side irons, circa 1900. The ironwork has been stove enamelled black and the brass has been polished and lacquered. Will take standard 3 ft x 6' 3" bed base and mattress. Height 54" head end, 43" foot end. Apart from some minor damage to the rails all is complete and in good order. Click on photo for a larger view. Price: £240.00


Brass Umbrella Stand US44 Original, quality, semi circular, brass umbrella stand circa 1900, with three brass uprights mounted on a heavy cast iron base and with a semi circular, five division top section and turned brass finials. The brass has been polished and lacquered and the ironwork painted black. A great looker and perfect for sticks and umbrellas. Complete and in good and working order. 24.5" tall and base 16.5" x 8.5". Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £400.00


	Chrome Umbrella Stand US43 Original, quality, 1920's/30's, chrome on brass umbrella stand, with eight divisions to the top section and four corner pillars with finials, all mounted to the cast iron rectangular base and complete with a lift out, tin drip pan. The chrome has been polished and lacquered and the cast iron base and drip pan have been repainted. All is complete and in good and working order. 24.5" tall, base 16.5" x 9.5". Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £350.00


Pair of Semi-Circular Brass Umbrella Stands US38 A pair of original, quality 1920's half round brass umbrella stands, with cast iron bases, sectioned tops and turned brass finials. The cast iron has been cleaned and repainted and the brass polished and lacquered. Very unusual shape and very unusual to find a pair. Complete and in good and working order. Together 20" x 17" x 24.5" high, each 17" x 9.5" x 24.5" high. Price is for the pair. Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £950.00

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