Vintage Maitland Smith desk and game table with removable game board. Made from ash and burl black walnut squares with a hand-tooled leather top, 2 side slides and bronze mountings. Measures 30 inches high, 50 inches wide and 24 inches deep with a 25 inch clearance for legs. Excellent condition.
18th century Dutch chair with marquetry inlay of flowers, birds, and butterflies. Newly upholstered slip seat. Professionally re-glued. Excellent condition. Some old repairs commensurate with its age. Measures 35" high to the back, 18.5" high to the seat crown, 18" wide and 22" deep with a 14.5 x 16.5 inch seat. This would be lovely as a vanity or desk chair.
Eldred Wheeler tiger maple library table or desk in the Rhode Island style of 1780-90. Pronounced hand block-planed surface, wood pin joinery and strong all over tiger maple grain. Three drawers that have wide hand-cut dovetails and chamfered bottoms. It measures 52" long x 33 3/4" wide x 30" high. Eldred Wheeler was established in 1977 and is no longer in business. In its day the company made the finest copies of authentic Early American furniture. Please see "Eldred Wheeler / A Collector's Guide" by Emmett W. Eldred, page 226, for reference to this table/desk. The Eldred Wheeler tiger maple arm chair shown in one of the images is not included with the desk.
Antique S. Silliman traveling inkwell made from lignum vitae wood fitted with its original blown glass bottle. Chester, CT, circa 1860. Excellent condition. Height 2 and one eighth inches. In the 19th century, the S. Silliman Company in Chester, CT, made itself known nationwide for its wooden inkstands and inkwells. Indeed, it is said that Abraham Lincoln had a Silliman inkwell in his Springfield, IL, law office, and in 1837 a Silliman inkwell was gifted to President Martin Van Buren. Lignum vitae is a dense, hard, and heavy wood that comes from trees in the Guaiacum genus, which are native to the Caribbean and northern South America.
19th century treen sander in excellent condition. Height 3 inches.