Strauss & co - 12 October 2015, Cape Town

277 A Regency mahogany and inlaid twin-pedestal sideboard the central drawer with moulded gallery and shaped backboard, one pedestal with a drawer and a cellaret drawer, the other with a cupboard enclosing a shelf, on ring-turned feet, fitted with Bramah locks, 194 Piccadilly, 123cm high, 157cmwide, 38,5cm deep R8 000–10 000 278 An early Victorian rosewood book carrier rectangular, the centre with pierced foliate gallery, the hinged sides incorporating carrying-handles, raised on square-section block feet, 17,5cm high, 38,5cmwide, 28cm deep R3 000–4 000 279 A mahogany and brass- mounted travelling desk-on- stand, 19th century and later the rectangular top inset with a brass plaque engraved with the initials ‘PI’ enclosing a gilt-tooled leather-lined writing surface, pen, ink and a secret compartment, 18cm high, 50cmwide, 26cm deep , the later mahogany stand with rectangular moulded top on square- section tapering legs joined by stretchers, on block feet, 105cm high, 51cmwide, 53cm deep (2) R4 000–6 000 280 A Welsh oak dresser, circa 1847 the superstructure with three shelves above six small drawers, with fluted sides and outset cornice, the lower half with three frieze drawers above an arrangement of three graduated drawers flanked by a pair of panelled cupboards, each enclosing a shelf, on bracket feet, 245cm high, 218cmwide, 50cm deep R30 000–40 000 Top left-hand drawer signed Thomas Jones, joiner, Rhuddland, 1847. 278 277 112