A super Victorian small partners desk in golden quarter sawn oak and attributed to Gillows. With a rectangular top with inset red burgundy leatherette writing surface and further removeable writing flap enclosed within the central drawer it features chamfered edges in the Gothic style and distinctive golden medillary rays in the grain. It can be used with all nine drawers to one side and nine dummy/false drawers to the other side, or one or both pedestals can be reversed so there are a mixture of opening and dummy drawers to each side. It has brass locks and key liners to all the drawers and original turned knob handles whilst concealed castors ease moving it once assembled. Sympathetically repolished to a warm golden colour and finished with a traditional wax, it is in good solid condition and has a working key. The red leatherette is in excellent condition however the leatherette on the writing flap is the original and as such is faded and worn although still useable. The b...