Anthony Short Antiques has dated this Mahogany Biscuit Display Cabinet to the 19th Century.
This is a rare and highly decorative late 19th-century country store biscuit display cabinet, advertising “Mackenzie & Mackenzie's High Class Biscuits” in its original reverse gilt lettering across the top. Beautifully made in mahogany, the cabinet has a rectangular mahogany top and three slanted display compartments, each with its original glass lift-up door, brass “compass” hinges designed to hold the doors open and pair of brass handles.
Mackenzie & Mackenzie's were prominent biscuit makers to the King, based in Edinburgh and London, and were among the most prestigious biscuit manufacturers of the late 19th and early 20th century, making original pieces of their trade furniture exceptionally hard to find today. This Victorian example retains its brass fittings and handles, with gilt advertising to the centre. This cabinet remains in excellent antique condition, showing only the normal marks and scuffs consistent with age and honest use. A very useful and highly decorative piece of genuine trade history, it has great potential for modern use as a bookcase, display shelf, or feature cabinet in a kitchen, pantry, shop, café, bar, or collector’s interior, and represents a unique surviving example of late 19th-century advertising furniture.
Height 126cm (49.6in)
Width 108cm (42.5in)
Depth 54cm (21.3in)
Anthony Short Antiques has dated this Mahogany Biscuit Display Cabinet to the 19th Century.
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19th Century Mahogany Mackenzie's Biscuits Display Cabinet, C1880
