Description A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CROSSBANDED AND INLAID SERPENTINE FRONTED KNIFE BOX, CONVERTED INTO A CORRESPONDENCE BOX,?24cm by 24cm by 34cm; AND A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY AND BRASS INLAID WRITING SLOPE, with brass carrying handles, lacking writing surface and interior fittings, 49cm by 28cm by 19cm (2)
Condition Report Knife box in poor condition, losses to crossbanding and applied decoration and edges, splits to wood, interior has been converted to a correspondence box, lacking key. Writing slope in poor condition, lacks writing surface and fitted interior (pen tray, ink wells etc), heavy losses to the veneer, lacks lock and key.