A Late 19thC Button-Back Leather Tub Armchair c.1900 antiques opening to reveal lettered pigeon

opening to reveal lettered pigeon holes A through Z and two lower drawers with drop handles

tactile and wonderfully well-patinated cast iron door porter modelled as a Medici lion

but at night and during the dark days of winter the work was prepared by candlelight

Historically woven mostly by women

The work sits in the original frame

A Late 19thC Button-Back Leather Tub Armchair c.1900 antiques opening to reveal lettered pigeonOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 Height: 29 or 13 at seat Width: 31. 5 Depth: 26 The comfortable and supple leather armchair in tub form, the whole in burgundy brown leather with a scrolled fanned back to barrel arms, and on tapering legs to brass castors, surviving from the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The chair is in largely original order making it hugely appealing, with the upholstery just on the