A Good Button-Back Upholstered Victorian Walnut Chesterfield Sofa c.1880 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Exactly thirty years after this

Exactly thirty years after this inscription

it may have been the world’s first dress form

this is surely the most appropriate way to celebrate big Jim

one bat spread-eagled on a tile mount

The mirror plate is wonderfully foxed but still useable and whilst there are losses to the gesso particularly to the top ornament the whole remains an attractive entity as a whole

A Good Button-Back Upholstered Victorian Walnut Chesterfield Sofa c.1880 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Exactly thirty years after thisOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 1900 Height: 25 Seat Height: 15 Width: 72 Depth: 36 (all at extremities) The quality carcass upholstered in rose pink coloured button back velvet velour with antique slub, the whole sitting on ring turned walnut front legs and sabre rear legs, the carcass stamped H. V.(?) within an oval (concealed) and numbered 2167 to one rear leg, the whole on later brass castors survives from