Edwardian Mahogany Wellington Chest with Geometric Line Inlays

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...

Victorian small mahogany Wellington chest This Victorian small mahogany Wellington chest was made circa 1865. It is a 5-drawer version and so not as tall as the usual Wellington che...

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...

Tall Edwardian painted Wellington chest filing cabinet The chest is full of character, it has an original painted finish, this is old with a crackle...