Lot 100: Rare Sister’s Sewing Desk

Cherry, butternut, maple, and pine, porcelain pulls, six drawer top section (three over three), two full drawer bottom section with figured cherry drawer fronts, top center drawers are both inscribed in pencil on the bottom of each “Adoline Cantral May 12 1874 OH”, “No 3” and “No 4”, on square tapered legs, (note: this rare Orren Haskins signed piece is the mate to the sewing desk in the Hancock Shaker Museum collection, which is similarly signed “Cornelia French May 12 1874 OH”, except this desk is slightly more diminutive in size), 38 1/2″ h, 30 1/2″ w, 15 3/4″ d. 

Estimate: $40,000-60,000