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Rolltop desk:
- Massive 2-piece desk with quarter-round cover of turned louvers on canvas
backing that rolls up and back to reveal well with about 20 pigeonholes and ten drawers.
- Narrow top molded and slightly overhanging, parallels writing surface that
divides well from lower pedestals.
- Each pedestal has four drawers of equal size topped by narrow pull-out writing
slide.
- Molded, plinthlike
base
- Pulls: leaf-carved wooden
grips
- Sides and back paneled
- Nailed, glued, and screwed construction.
- Manufactured in large factories throughout the East and Midwest. c. 1880-1930.
For more than 50 years the rolltop was the standard office deskt throughout
the United States. Many thousands of desks were produced, and many still remain.
The earliest were made of walnut or cherry, but by 1900 oak was used almost exclusively.
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