An antique Australian cedar desk-top collector's chest with three drawers, moulded top and conforming plinth base, 19th century, 31.5 cm high, 29.5 cm wide, 25 cm deep
A fiddle back blackwood Nineteen drawer specimen cabinet. Australian circa 1900 purchased from McPhees 28/2/1983, the bull nosed rectangular top over nineteen graduated drawers with timber knop handles flanked by reeded columns, one acting as a locking…
Regency Chinoiserie black lacquer and parcel-gilt specimen cabinet, c. 1820, the two doors decorated with a fisherman by a lake, with ducks and flying birds, enclosing a fitted interior with drawers, raised on cabriole legs surmounted by Egyptian busts,…
A glazed two door hardwood specimen cabinet, with five shelves bearing a plaque inscribed 'R.H. Pocock Benefactor', 188 cm high, 138.5 cm wide, 41 cm deep. Provenance: Society of Australian Genealogists
Fine and rare Georgian casuarina collectors cabinet on stand, c.1810-20, of Australian interest, the moulded rectangular top with a later pierced brass three-quarter gallery above panelled doors enclosing fourteen graduated 'specimen' drawers with…
New Zealand Colonial kauri pokerwork collector's cabinet, with 13 graduated drawers the fronts decorated with florals, scrolls and birds, the sides decorated with figures of Valour and Wisdom, the top with a female portrait carved by Mary White (nee…
An Australian cedar Gothic style collector's cabinet, Melbourne origin, 19th century front interior fitted with 10 drawers, side doors fitted with pigeon holes and 10 drawers red pine secondary timbers 106 cm high, 108 cm wide, 62 cm deep
A rare cedar forty-five drawer slide specimen cabinet, Thought to Have been made for Melbourne University, 1875-80, enclosed by a glazed panel door 49.7 x 30.5 cm (small crack to glass)