A Decorative Teal Painted Pine Chest of Drawers c.1900-15 sub-Decorative Objects lithography and

lithography and

Love tokens themselves started in around the 15th century with bent and engraved coins the most popular form but wider examples range from precious gold posy rings to pieces of furniture carved with lovers’ initials and often dates of their betrothal or birth of their offspring

Rare high Victorian whimsy for the garden or indoor object d’art

designed to draw in the crowds at fairgrounds all over this fair land

The reverse shows the joints holding the planks together

A Decorative Teal Painted Pine Chest of Drawers c.1900-15 sub-Decorative Objects lithography andOrigin: English Period: Early 20thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 15 Height: 41 Width: 46. 5 Depth: 19. 5 (all at top) The early twentieth century period pine carcass of relatively large size, showing the original period teal blue painted finish and having an arrangement of five drawers, two short over three long, with knob handles to each, the whole sitting on turned bun feet, surviving from the zeniths of nineteenth century England. The drawers