Grand Cartonnier de notaire in mahogany Louis XVI compartments

Storage cabinet, papers and files. Fluted uprights inlaid with brass, having sixteen compartments. Style louis XVI. Dimensions: h1.58, w 0.94, p0.34 m. This piece of furniture consists of 16 cartons covered with gilded leather with iron, replaced to nine and leather well maintained since. The boxes are removable and close very well, they open with a brass button. Left rear foot has been renovated. The furniture set is surrounded by solid bronze chopsticks. The uprights of the sides tripled with brass rods. Furniture in good condition and healthy. This item is period so it may show signs of wear due to its age, all major defects will be noted and shown in the photographs. Late nineteenth, early twentieth century around 1900. To be withdrawn at la celle saint cloud. 1st floor, to go down by the stairs which is wide because does not fit in the elevator. The cardboard maker is a piece of furniture for storing and preserving manuscripts, autographs, notes, papers, cardboard and documents of all kinds. It consists of a series of boxes in which document boxes are snapped, a kind of square boxes on both sides equipped with hinges. This type of furniture was widely used in the offices of notaries and lawyers to store the paperwork of ongoing cases. The first cartonniers appeared under louis XVI and spread during the reign of louis-philippe.

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