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Period: Mid-19th Century
Selection of Antique Grand Tour Marbles, Italy, 1850.
Located in Milan, IT
A selection of antique Grand Tour marbles. In an inclined display structure made of lacquered cherry wood and profiled in black (ebony wood), a coll...
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Italian Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Marble
French Empire Style Ormolu Mounted Marble Desk Stand
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stunning French ormolu mounted Empire style marble desk stand dating from the 19th century. This stylish stand is of rectangular shape with rounded polished ends and is made from a...
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French Empire Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Marble
Antique Decorative Desk Stand, Indian, Ebony, Colonial Writer's Tidy, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique decorative desk stand. An Indian, ebony Colonial writer's tidy, dating to the early Victorian period, circa 1850.
Striking dark tonality with eye-catching Colon...
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Indian British Colonial Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Ebony
Antique Victorian Coromandel Brass Wooden Letters Stationery Casket Box Betjeman
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Absolutely stunning early Victorian well figured Coromandel Stationery Casket of museum quality and in outstanding condition. Mid Nineteenth Century. Made in England by G. Betjemann....
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Irish Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Brass
Rare Antler Desk Standish with Elaborate Carvings, Germany ca. 1840
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Rare Antler Desk Standish with Elaborate Carvings, Germany ca. 1840
A rare antique writing desk set made of wood and original antlers decorated with fine carved hunting scenes depic...
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German Black Forest Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Wood, Antler
Elegant Victorian Flame Mahogany Writing Slope & Stationary Leather Interior Vid
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Slope April 2025 E1
Elegant 19th Century Victorian Flame Mahogany Decorative Inlaid Writing Slope With Black Ebonised Accents & Fitted Stationary Compartments With A Tooled Leather Interior
Supplied with two glass inkwells
A new notepad
A vintage ink pen...
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British Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
c. 1860 Chinese Lacquer on Wood Writing Slope
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Circa 1860 Chinese lacquer on wood writing slope. Made for the English market. Fold over writing surface. Secret drawers. Losses & rubbing commensurate with age, use & delicacy of ma...
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Chinese Chinese Export Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Lacquer
Fine Quality Antique Victorian French Freestanding Inlaid Boulle Desk Set
Located in Suffolk, GB
Fine quality antique Victorian French freestanding inlaid boulle desk set having a quality ornate shaped brass handle flanked by a pair of original cut glass inkwells with inlaid bou...
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French Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Brass
Antique French Boulle Writing Box
Located in Northampton, GB
Edged In Brass
From our Writing Box collection, we are pleased to offer this French Boulle Writing Box. The Writing Box of small form having a square shaped body veneered in ebonise...
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French Napoleon III Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Brass
Victorian Polished Leather Document Box With Leather Lining Stamped GMC
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Cherry Red Polished Leather Document Box With Leather Lining & Brass Handle & Black Baize Base Fitted With Hill & Cozens 5 Lever Brass Lock
Stamped G M C
The Medical Act 1858 esta...
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British High Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Brass
c. 1860 Double Sided English Paper Mache Desk Standish
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Circa 1860 double sided papier mache desk standish, English. Unusual double sided form for a small partner's desk. Raised on turned feet. Shows considerable wear, an old crack, corne...
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English Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Paper
19th Century Rosewood Letter Tray
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Very Attractive And Extremely Good Quality Mid 19th Century Rosewood Letter Tray, Of Unusually Diminutive Proportions, Having Exceptionally Well...
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English Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Rosewood
Gilt Bronze Desk Set
Located in Westwood, NJ
A fine English gilt bronze serpentine desk set with bell, sander, inkpot and candleholders.
Category
English Queen Anne Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Bronze
Chalcedony and Gilded Bronze Desk Set from the Duke of St. Albans
Located in London, GB
A finely cased desk set in Chalcedony and the very finest gilt bronze. Made up of a letter opener, a seal and a pen. The leather case is lined in its original velvet and silk. The en...
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English Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Bronze
A Large Victorian Mahogany Gallery or Magnifying Glass, 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
A very large Georgian or Victorian mahogany gallery or magnifying glass. The circular glass within a mahogany frame, the baluster handle screwing into a brass bracket in the rim. Eng...
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British Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Glass, Mahogany
An Ashford (Derbyshire) black marble pen tray
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
An Ashford (Derbyshire) black marble pen tray, of rectangular form with two pen trays and a small circular well centred under a bronze handle in the form entwined serpents, the pen trays decorated with inlaid pietra dura borders. English, circa 1850.
Ashford marble is a type of limestone which can be polished to a glossy black finish. It is quarried in only two sites in Derbyshire and has been used as a decorative building material since Bess of Hardwick commissioned a chimney piece of Ashford stone for Chatsworth. In the 18th century Henry Watson...
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English Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Marble
Antique Desk Drawer, Japanese Ebonised Pine Desktop Folio, Victorian, Edo Period
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique desk drawer. A Japanese, ebonised pine desktop folio, dating to the early Victorian period, circa 1850.
Attractive desk tidy with appealing hand-finished charm
Displays a desirable aged patina and in good order
Ebonised pine frame presents dark tonality
Accentuated to the top with a saffron yellow hatched border
Hand-painted Japanese motif adds a flourish to the front and sides
Useful drawer dressed with a small brass pull for ease of opening
Light crimson interior with remnants of a decorative lining
Later faux crocodile dressing to the top surface and base
This is a charming antique desk...
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Japanese Edo Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Pine
Antique English Coromandel & Ormolu Mounted Four Piece Desk Set Mid 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a wonderful and highly decorative antique Victorian ormolu mounted coromandel four piece desk set by the renowned London maker of luxury items, Betjemann & Sons, cira 1860 in...
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English Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Ormolu
Very rare English travel writing desk/secretary chest around 1860
Located in Berlin, DE
Very rare English travel writing desk/secretary chest around 1860
Solid mahogany lidded box that can be converted into a travel writing desk/travel secretary with a green leather to...
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English Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Brass
Grand French Three-Piece Desk Set, Hand Painted Porcelain Inset, circa 1860
Located in Bath, GB
Wonderful to find a top-notch, highly decorative and most unusual desk set, French in origin dating to around 1860. Made from nutty coloured burl Walnut, all three pieces are mounted with the most wonderful polished brass mounts all inset with fabulous hand painted porcelain plaques.
Our restorer had to remove all the mounts to professionally clean and on doing so found the name of the figure depicted on the plaques, "Ninon De Lenclos" a French Author, Courtesan, Freethinker and Patron of the Arts.
The set is made up of a Stationery box with brass swing handles each side; the box complete with a working tasselled key. The box opens to reveal the wonderful original gilded leather lining with the original paper lining the sides of the dividers. The lock and hinges are beautifully engraved, a true sign of quality.
The next piece is a hefty large oval Walnut Inkstand with a large glass inkwell...
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French Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Brass
19th Century Chinese Camphor Wood and Ebonised Writing Slope
Located in Martlesham, GB
19th century Chinese camphor wood and ebonised writing slope of exceptional quality, having a drawer to the front which when pulls out opens the tambour shutter on top to reveal a lift up stationary rack with various sized compartments, in the bottom central compartment there is the makers label “SUI KEE CHAN” There is a hinged lid which lifts up and over...
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Hong Kong Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Hardwood
Mid-19th Century English Papier Mache Desk Standish
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Mid-19th century English papier mache desk standish. Original inkwells (lacking covers), drawer with carved pull & stamp/nib container (cover associated). Decorated in Renaissance re...
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English Renaissance Revival Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Other
19th Century French Inkwell
Located in Stockbridge, GA
19th century French inkwell, Louis-Philippe period.
Category
French Louis Philippe Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Small Italian 1860s Painted Ceramic Floral Desk Set with Ink and Sand Containers
Located in Atlanta, GA
A petite Italian painted ceramic desk set from the mid-19th century, with two floral containers for ink and sand. Born in Italy during the second half...
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Italian Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Brass, Walnut and Ebonized Double Inkwell Set
Located in WEST PALM BEACH, FL
English Victorian inkwell set. This walnut set has been accented with an ebony color and an overall brass decoration,
mid-late 10th century.
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English Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Brass
Tunbridge Ware Leather-Hinged Document Holder c1860
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Tunbridge ware leather hinged antique document holder
Date : c1860
Period : Victoria
Origin : Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Decoration : Pers...
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British Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Wood
19th Century French Pair of Bronze Cachets Depicting Female Figures
Located in Sofia, BG
19th century French pair of cachets made of bronze depicting two figures of beautiful female. Already engraved "CH" and "LD" and could become a perfect gift!
France, circa 1870.
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French Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Bronze
French Pair of Bronze Cachets Depicting a Bagpipe Player and a Drummer
Located in Sofia, BG
19th century French pair of cachets made of bronze depicting two figures one of a bagpipe player and one of a drummer. Ready to be engraved and could become a perfect gift!
France, ...
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French Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Bronze
English Writing Desk With Mother Of Pearl And Abalone
Located in Dallas, TX
An english wood Writing Desk inlaid with abalone and mother of pearl. The lock is signed by maker in London, England. Circa 1860.
Category
English Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Leather, Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
3-Piece Sevres Porcelain and Dore Bronze Mnt. Clock and Candelabra Garniture
Located in New York, NY
A gorgeous and very unusual 19th century French dore bronze mounted Sevres white porcelain three-piece clock and three-light candelabra garniture set. The Lyre shaped clock and cande...
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French Louis XVI Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Bronze
A Louis Philippe bronze and ormolu desk set
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Louis Philippe bronze and ormolu desk set, comprising two ink wells and a powder shaker in the form of crenelated urns with anthemion-bud finia...
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French Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Bronze
Fine French Cartonnier, 19th Century, Attributed to Paul Sormani, circa 1865
By Paul Sormani
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Fine French Cartonnier, 19th century,
attributed to Paul Sormani Paris, circa 1865, bois de Violette, satine quarter-veneer and six gilt-tooled brow...
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Antique Mid-19th Century Desk Sets
Materials
Wood
