A Regency brass-mounted mahogany campaign dispatch box, with crank handle for making copies of correspondence (Watts patent) and sunken brass carrying handles - The Association of Art and Antique Dealers

Richard Gardner Antiques

A Regency brass-mounted mahogany campaign dispatch box, with crank handle for making copies of correspondence (Watts patent) and sunken brass carrying handles.

( c. 1805) United Kingdom

Dimensions

18.00inch wide 7.00inch high 12.00inch deep (45.72 cm wide 17.78 cm high 30.48 cm deep)

Description

President Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) thought highly of such dispatch boxes, which he referred to as "polygraph" desk copying presses.

Price

gbp 3250.00 (Pound Sterling)

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Richard Gardner Antiques