A Late 19thC Stained Pine Bank of Twenty-One Drawers c.1890 sub-Natural History or banded with darker markings

or banded with darker markings

depicts local Belgian and Brussels born conjurer Philippe De Bischop (1880-1960) who performed in Belgium

the prior originally would simply have had in a bed in the communal dormitory

the wholes of arcaded form with ruby red borders surviving from the late nineteenth century

The tightening mechanism

A Late 19thC Stained Pine Bank of Twenty-One Drawers c.1890 sub-Natural History or banded with darker markingsOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1890 1900Width: 36Height: 42Depth: 19 (with handles)In good original condition, the stained pine flight or bank of twenty one drawers, each with knob handles, having seven rows of three drawers, consisting of four smaller rows graduating to three deeper rows each with grooved borders, the whole standing on later shepherd castors and surviving from the last quarter of the nineteenth