Sale 38 Lot 1585  

FEDERAL STYLE MAHOGANY CHEST-ON-CHEST. made of later part. Upper Case: enclosed bonnet-top; over small freeze drawer above four long drawers. Lower case has four long drawers; shaped tapering bracket feet; replaced hardware - 82 in. x 37 in. x 19 in.
Estimate $900-1,200

NOTE: Made by J. Harris & Sons, a Baltimore cabinet-making and antiques firm located at 873-875 North Howard Street. Barney "Barr" Harris was born above his father''s business in 1917. Barr Harris established Harris Auction Galleries in 1952 at the Howard Street site.


NOTE: Illustrated "A Townhouse Marked by Imagination and Flair,'' Sunday Sun Magazine, August 9, 1964 by Kathryn Geraghty Tubman, photographed by A. Aubrey Bodine


PROVENANCE: Estate of Licien "Lun" King Harris, Baltimore, MD

Sold for $1,000

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