Salvaged Timber & Relics - English Poetry & Literature - a 1...

Salvaged Timber & Relics - English Poetry & Literature - a 19th century yew table top stationery cabinet, the sloping front with hinged compartment and twin-covers, applied with a brass plaque inscribed 'This Cabinet is Made of Wood Taken From the Yew Tree of Lorton, Wm. Marchington, Cockermouth, 1883', enclosing a fitted interior, above two long drawers, 35cm high, 40cm wide, 28cm deep, c.1883 Located next to Whit Beck in the Lake District this ancient tree was celebrated by William Wordsworth as the 'Pride of Lorton Vale in his 1815 poem Yew Trees.

Estimate:£200

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