Maybe item No. 1 was the table top itself! Did Ross & Co also make good-quality conventional furniture for home or office use, or did they purely specialise in campaign/travel-ware?
1st, Thankyou for showing and explaining the table.Would appreciate at least 1 eppasode on fakery. Always an important aspect in the old furnature trade.
It would be a good video to make but unfortunately difficult to show examples. I'm sure those auctioneering / selling such items wouldn't allow use of their images and we wouldn't want to buy a piece that has been enhanced with a maker's name etc.
Beautiful! How common were desks/library tables for an officer on campaign? I haven't seen your shop post many campaign desks and it seems the more common setup was the integrated writing desks with the chests rather than standalone desks. Of course there's the naval captain's desk which makes sense for a ship but what about for land campaign? Have you seen any evidence whether this was common or not?
Judging by the number of Secretaire campaign chests compared with writing desks it would certainly indicate that they were the more popular type of writing desk and would give the owner the added bonus of storage space.
Maybe item No. 1 was the table top itself! Did Ross & Co also make good-quality conventional furniture for home or office use, or did they purely specialise in campaign/travel-ware?
They did make some domestic furniture but campaign furniture was their main business.
1st, Thankyou for showing and explaining the table.Would appreciate at least 1 eppasode on fakery. Always an important aspect in the old furnature trade.
It would be a good video to make but unfortunately difficult to show examples. I'm sure those auctioneering / selling such items wouldn't allow use of their images and we wouldn't want to buy a piece that has been enhanced with a maker's name etc.
Beautiful! How common were desks/library tables for an officer on campaign? I haven't seen your shop post many campaign desks and it seems the more common setup was the integrated writing desks with the chests rather than standalone desks. Of course there's the naval captain's desk which makes sense for a ship but what about for land campaign? Have you seen any evidence whether this was common or not?
Judging by the number of Secretaire campaign chests compared with writing desks it would certainly indicate that they were the more popular type of writing desk and would give the owner the added bonus of storage space.