Description
Heading : Brass mounted mahogany writing slope by Nicholas Middleton
Date : c1825
Period : George IV
Origin : London
Decoration : Triple folding mahogany exterior with brass mounting. Interior with velvet lined slope and backboard. Pen tray, inkwells etc. A brass candle sconce attaches to the terminal on the right of the slope for lighting. Compartments under both sides of the slope. Secret drawer released with a pin key with a catch beneath the right had inkwell. Label under bottom half of the slope reads: N Middleton, Stationer, Pocket Book & Pencil Maker to the King and Prince of Wales 162 Strand, opposite Newcastle Street, and 145 Strand Opposite Cahterine Street, Copying Machines, Writing & Dressing Desks, Ebony Inkstands, Improved Crayon pencils for Drawing in Colours.’
Size :50.5cm x 25.8cm, 16.7cm height
Condition : Very good, some scratching to exterior and perhaps a missing document holder to underside interior cover. Otherwise general wear with age.
Restoration : None
Weight : 7360grams
There are writing slopes and there are Middleton writing slopes. Neither 162 Strand nor Newcastle Street exist anymore with 162 being replaced with the brutalist concrete hell that is King’s College London’s Strand Campus, and Newcastle Street making way for the Aldwych Street system. 145 the Strand now houses an hotel the neighbour of which will be well known to King’s students as one of London’s premier Greggs, they call this progress
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