Beautiful Pair of tall Satin Birch Cabinets
£1,900.00
Pair of tall Satin Birch Cabinets equally suited to serve as useful storage in the Study or as bedside cabinets.
Very nice quality, stamped by the retailer/ maker W Tarn and co. London. Dating from around 1850 they are veneered in well chosen Satin Birch with Rosewood details.
Dimensions:
Height 101cm(39.8”)
Width 42cm(16.5”)
Depth 58cm (22.8”)
Declared manufacture date: 19th century
William Tarn & Co. was a large department store in the Elephant and Castle district of Southwark. The business seems to have begun as a drapery shop c. 1799. In 1841, William Tarn & Co. is listed in a London Directory as “silk mercer, linen draper and general house furnisher”.
By the 1870s, the company had expanded to become a huge department store. There were departments for silks, velvet’s, furniture, haberdashery, millinery, boots and shoes, furs, carpets, and suits. The store was the largest retailer in Elephant and Castle – a thriving shopping area at this time – known as “the Piccadilly of south London”.
| Material |
Wood |
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| Maker |
W Tarn and Co. |
