Tall Edwardian Painted Wellington Chest Filing Cabinet

French walnut Cartonniere wellington chest filing cabinet, reception hostess greeting station This is a traditional French Cartonniere, it is a dou...

Barristers Wellington filing cabinet by Shannon. This unusual filing cabinet is made by Shannon, recognised for the quality of their filing systems, t...

19th Century Filing Cabinet Drawers, Coffee Table This attractive Pine Filing Cabinet has 6 drawers, some of these have dividers inside, ...

19th Century Tall 6 Drawer Oak Chest of Drawers This is a Superb Oak Chest of Drawers it is unusual and a very desirable style of 6 full width drawers The chest has slender columns...

Original Shabby Painted Chest of Drawers This delightful 3 Drawer Chest of drawers is in its original painted finish which is in used but still very attractive condition This is...

This is a traditional French Cartonniere, the top section holds 10 removable brass fitted box files. The main body of the cabinet is made in pine and it has a two-door shelved cupbo...

A tall and Elegant 19th Century Regency chest of drawers Mahogany Chiffonier also chiffonnier. Its name comes directly from a Fre...

Victorian figured rosewood Wellington chest with good architectural features including well carved corbels at the top & bottom of the pilasters, a sla...

Large Wellington chest dating to the Edwardian period, consisting of eight dovetailed drawers with original hand turned mahogany knobs. In very good condition with working lock and t...

Sn4769, fine quality Victorian figured mahogany chest of drawers, having figured top with moulded edge above 7 graduated, oak lined drawers fitted with original turned handles and fl...

Sn5358 Victorian mahogany Wellington chest, having oversailing top above seven graduated drawers all fitted with original turned knobs and fl...

A Very Good Quality Late 19th Century Mahogany Double Wellington Chest With Two Banks Of Six Drawers With Replacement Brass Knobs Flanked By Hinged Locking Pilaster To Each Side Raised On Original Plinth Base. The first Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, commissioned the first chest of this type, i.e. a tall bank of drawers secured by hinged locking pilasters to take with him and carry around various battlefields and that is where the name wellington chest comes from. It is now used to refer to almost any tall, narrow antique chest of drawers. By default this particular design of chest is therefore referred to as a double wellington chest. From around 1820 onwards they were manufactured in a huge variety of shapes and sizes, plus they varied a great deal in terms of both their quality and the wood which they are constructed from. This wellington chest is of a form rarely found in terms of its double bank of drawers...