Antique Oak Desk, Slant Front Desk, Victorian Dickens Desk, England, 1880

View Similar Items

Antique Victorian Inlaid Slant Front Desk Bureau, Scotland 1900, H227

Antique Walnut Desk, Slant Front Desk, Drop Front Bureau, Scotland 1910

New England Tiger Maple Slant Front Desk circa 1780-90

Antique Stickley Style Mission Oak Arts & Crafts Slant Front Secretary Desk

19th Century Victorian Walnut Slant Front Secretary Desk

German Biedermeier Slant-Front Desk

Walnut Slant Front Bureau/Desk

Walnut Chippendale Slant-Front Desk

Mission Oak Arts & Crafts Slant Front Desk, C1915

Federal Birch Slant Front Desk

Circa 1780-1810 American Slant-Front Desk

19th Century Victorian Mahogany Winged Griffin Slant Front Desk

Want more images or videos?

Request additional images or videos from the seller

1 of 19

Antique Oak Desk, Slant Front Desk, Victorian Dickens Desk, England, 1880

About the Item

Antique oak desk, slant front desk, Dickens desk, England, 1880, Antique Furniture, B994. England 1880, Very nice example of a Victorian Oak Dickens Desk Top with central spindled gallery Flanked by two flights of four small drawers Secured with locking bars Black leather writing surfaces, centre surface is sloped Opens to interior fitted with various compartments Two frieze drawers Two pedestals with three drawers Ending on a plinth base Some marks and scuffs commensurate with age Overall good condition. Was $2950 now just $2150!!!! B994 Measures: 53" W x 25" D x 42" H. Shipping $500-550 with Plycon Van Lines PLEASE NOTE: Shipping is NOT free! Shipping method and cost depends on where you live. Shipping will not be added at check out but calculated and billed separately after I know what your zip code is. Please send your zip code if you would like a quote before purchasing. Dickens Desk Antique Oak Desk, Slant Front Desk, Dickens Desk, England 1880, Antique Furniture, Very Nice Example of a Victorian Oak Dickens Desk, Top With Central Spindled Gallery, Flanked by Two Flights of Four Small Drawers,Secured With Locking Bars, Black Leather Writing Surfaces, Center Surface is Sloped B994 $2650 Some History of the Dickens Desk used by Charles Dickens The Dickens desk where Charles Dickens wrote Great Expectations and his final, unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood has been saved for the nation. The Charles Dickens Museum in London has been given a grant of more than £780,000 by the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) to buy the desk and chair which he used in his final home, Gad’s Hill Place in Kent. They had been passed down through the Dickens family after the author’s death in 1870 but were auctioned for the Great Ormond Street Charitable Trust in 2004. Since then, the furniture where Dickens sat to write Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend and The Mystery of Edwin Drood has been in private ownership, and could have been sold at public auction if it had not been secured with the grant from the NHMF. The Dickens desk and chair, which were made famous in two paintings begun the year he died, the Empty Chair by Luke Fildes and Dickens’ Dream by RW Buss, are already on display at the Charles Dickens Museum at the author’s former home in London. Carole Souter, chief executive of the NHMF, said: “Charles Dickens is one of the UK’s celebrated literary figures, whose stories and characters mean he is as popular today as he was in his lifetime. “It’s exciting news that visitors to his London home can continue to enjoy the unique opportunity to see the very desk at which some of his most famous works were created.”

Dimensions:
Height: 42 in (106.68 cm)Width: 53 in (134.62 cm)Depth: 25 in (63.5 cm)
Style:
Victorian (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Oak,Hand-Crafted
Place of Origin:
England
Period:
1880-1889
Date of Manufacture:
1880
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Vancouver, CA
Reference Number:
Seller: B9941stDibs: LU911311177491