A Classical Style Carved and Highly Figured Tiger Maple Slant Front Desk
Sale 1060 - American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
Lots 1001-1304
Sep 14, 2022
10:00AM ET
Lots 1305-1582
Sep 15, 2022
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Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$6,000 -
9,000
Price Realized
$6,250
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Lot Description
A Classical Style Carved and Highly Figured Tiger Maple Slant Front Desk
Likely Chisago Lake, Minnesota, Circa 1870
each of the document drawers in the desk interior is fitted with a secret drawer, one of the interior document drawers is inscribed Gustaf Strand, the underside of the lower case inscribed Chisago Lake 1870...Elias..., with further obscured inscription.
Height 88 x width 42 x depth 19 1/2 inches.
Height 88 x width 42 x depth 19 1/2 inches.
Property from the Collection of Heather Tlougan, Rochester, Minnesota
This beautiful, highly-figured tiger maple desk and bookcase is inscribed on the outer board on one of the document drawers Gustaf Strand. Immigration and census records show that Gustaf Johannson Strand (1832-1907) arrived in the United States from Sweden in 1854.
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