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   JimGG_ | Sep 28, 2001 09:56pm | #1

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   "Construction of American Furniture Treasures", by Lester Margon (Dover Publ, 1975), pp. 61-65, shows a desk used by Geo. Washington. The desk was said to be located in the New York City Hall. The drawer fronts are on all 4 sides. The sides and back are false. I've wanted to make this, but have no place to put it. You could make the drawers on the back real drawers, if you shortened the drawer length of the front drawers and rear drawers. One of the big furniture companies makes a copy of this piece.

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   JimGG_ | Sep 29, 2001 12:10pm | #2

   *Here's another: "Reproducing Antique Furniture", by Franklin H. Gottshall, pp. 119-126, "Chippendale Partner's Desk". Dover has reissued this book as "Making Antique Furniture Reproductions". If you look at FWW #151, p. 3, you'll see this desk on the cover of the book shown (top left ad).

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   scott_bonder | Nov 07, 2001 04:57pm | #3

   *what exactly is a "partner's desk"?

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   JimGG_ | Nov 07, 2001 09:52pm | #4

   *There are drawers on front and back. As the story goes, business partners would work at one desk, a guy on each side.