An antique Victorian rosewood and mother of pearl writing slope

This is an unusual writing slope in two respects:

- the opening is not on the front face but on the top where there are two flaps

- this writing slope is not very high

In detail we have the following:

• the profuse mother of pearl inlay is in very good condition with only minor loss in one area on the front left (best seen in the photographs)

• there is a lock, but no key (the one shown in the photographs is included in the sale but is purely for decorative value). The tassle is light blue in colour

• the black leather with gold tooling is in good condition 

• the hinges are original and are not loose

• there is an inkwell, though the lid cannot be removed - probably due to ink having set

• at the other end from the inkwell there is a small lid for a square storage area

• the pen tray is present

• either side of the pen tray are two areas with ski-slope type troughs - presumably made this way for the extraction of stamps or pen nibs

• in one of the photographs (one of the sides) it looks as if there is a repair, but this isn't the case - it is just the differential colour of the rosewood

This is an ideal writing slope for anyone with a small desk, or who prefers something a little bit different from the normal rather chunky box-type slopes

Postage is free on this item, but postage is just to within the UK mainland

Please see my other largely 18th and 19th century items