A Queen Anne walnut-banded and pine slant-front desk circa 1740

Banded top and front, slant front revealing fitted interior, over four graduated drawers, on bracket feet, one interior document drawer inscribed in ink to side, "Mr. Whitney."

(H: 59 in. W: 36 1/2 in. D: 19 1/2 in. (at greatest))

Provenance

A Greenville, Delaware estate.

considerable sun-fading to exterior surface, the banded slant front with some splitting / cracking to veneer, interior of slant front with a long age crack; occasional patches to veneer; rubbing/loss to lip of top of slant-front; hinges to slant front re-set and/or replaced, with signs of wood patches around them; brasses and escutcheons replaced, although period appropriate; bracket feet appear to be old, although unclear about whether they are original