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In two parts: the upper portion is a slant-top desk (the lid is missing) with a shallow shelf, the other portion is three tiers of drawers with the first tier having three short drawers, the second with two drawers and the third with one long thumb-molded drawer on frame with boot jack feet and three short drawers over one long drawer and deep well with a shelf below. There are original turned wooden pulls on the drawers, old brown paint on the exterior which orignally was painted red and still remains red at the frame well, shelf and at the ends.
desks-on-frames
desks
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Painted
DESK, SLANT-FRONT
Located on drawer bottom: 1810 (this is according to N.F. Little, though not found by registrar)
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
51 x 27 x 12.5 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.811
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