The rectangular moulded top with tooled green leather inset writing surface above a shaped kneehole flanked by four graduated drawers to each side, the reverse with similar opposing arrangement of simulated drawers, on a plinth base, with Norman Adams Ltd label to the interior right drawer and with presentation plaque, 'PRESENTED TO GENERAL SIR MILES DEMPSEY. KCB, KBE, DSO.MC, COLONEL OF THE ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT. BY OFFICERS PAST AND PRESENT NOT SERVING WITH ANY OF THE BATTALIONS, AND THEIR WIVES ON THE OCCASION OF HIS MARRIAGE, THE 2ND OF MARCH 1948', with a printed paper label to the top right hand drawer for Norman Adams Ltd, 8-10 Hans Road, SW3, and inscribed by hand 'Chippendale Period circa 1770', 140cm wide, 70cm deep, 77cm high (55in wide, 27.5in deep, 30in high).
The rectangular moulded top with tooled green leather inset writing surface above a shaped kneehole flanked by four graduated drawers to each side, the reverse with similar opposing arrangement of simulated drawers, on a plinth base, with Norman Adams Ltd label to the interior right drawer and with presentation plaque, 'PRESENTED TO GENERAL SIR MILES DEMPSEY. KCB, KBE, DSO.MC, COLONEL OF THE ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT. BY OFFICERS PAST AND PRESENT NOT SERVING WITH ANY OF THE BATTALIONS, AND THEIR WIVES ON THE OCCASION OF HIS MARRIAGE, THE 2ND OF MARCH 1948', with a printed paper label to the top right hand drawer for Norman Adams Ltd, 8-10 Hans Road, SW3, and inscribed by hand 'Chippendale Period circa 1770', 140cm wide, 70cm deep, 77cm high (55in wide, 27.5in deep, 30in high).
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