Smoking stand
Category
Furniture
Date
1920 - 1940
Materials
smoker's compactum
Measurements
300 x 350 x 225 mm
Order this imageCollection
Coleton Fishacre, Devon
NT 85155.1
Summary
French polished mahogany smoker's compactum with hinged panelled lockable doors concealing a drop handle single drawer and rotating tobacco jar and pipe stand. The door bars to hold chrome circular ashtrays. Box contains a Royal Doulton salt glazed stoneware tobacco jar with lid and damper.
Provenance
Kindly given to the National Trust by Julia Creeke
Marks and inscriptions
Front of tobacco jar rotating shelf.: [To] / [ MR FRANK CREEKE] / [With Best Wishes from Everybody at the A.A.L.] / [ON ATTAINING HIS MAJORITY] Underside of tobacco jar: [lion passant over circle] / [ROYAL DOULTON / [ENGLAND] [b] [6537] [UBW]