NEW YORK VICTORIAN RENAISSANCE REVIVAL WALNUT BREAKFRONT BOOKCASE SECRETARY, in multiple sections, the top featuring three arch-top doors concealing adjustable shelves, the base featuring a central fall-front butlers desk having a fitted interior with rosewood veneers, above a wide kneehole compartment, flanked by single drawers above single doors, raised on a flat base molding. Walnut, poplar, and pine secondary woods. Original hardware and surface. One interior desk drawer stenciled "FROM / E. W. HUTCHINGS / CABINET WAREROOMS / 475 / BROADWAY, N.Y." Circa 1870. 113 1/2" HOA, 88" WOA, 27" DOA.
Provenance: Property of a Virginia gentleman.
Catalogue Note: This breakfront was an original furnishing of the circa 1872 Selma Mansion in Winchester, Virginia.
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Very good overall condition, two pieces of base molding detached but present, each base end panel and kneehole panels with age crack, some small pieces detached, several being present.