ARTS AND CRAFTS HARRIS LEBUS HEARTS BUREAU BOOKCASE Rare/No. 156/Pierced Tulip Heart Motifs/Copper Hinges Start Price GBP 0.99 Current Price GBP 1,550.00 Time Left - Bid Count 19 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, August 30, 2008 End Time Tuesday, September 09, 2008 Location (WORLDWIDE SHIPPING) Nr. "Dover", U.K. See more about 'ARTS AND CRAFTS HARRIS LEBUS HEARTS BUREAU BOOKCASE' Description ############################## This does have a reserve, but it is quite low considering the rarity and actual value of this piece. There is another known model of this, which can be viewed at Dome Antiques / Puritan Values Ltd Website (under An Exhibition of Furniture George Walton Page 4 , 5th item down. )  ( http://www.puritanvalues.co.uk/georgew4.htm ) So good luck with the auction. Thanks. ############################## We will be listing a lot more quality Arts and Crafts Furniture, including, a rare Liberty & Co Leonard Wyburd design "A" Frame Mission Oak Dresser, a Rare Harris Lebus Oak and Copper Pierced Heart and Tulip Motif Bureau Bookcase and an oak Harris Lebus Sideboard, a quality JAS Shoolbred & Co. 6 Drawer Dressing Chest, an Oak Pierced Ying Yang and Tulips motifs Overmantle Mirror, a tall 6 shelf panelled back solid oak graduated bookcase, a Liberty & Co Golden Oak and Organic Copper Gothic Overmantle Mirror, a rare Copper "A" Frame Fire Screen, a Liberty & Co Oak Pewter and Boxwood Inlay Dining Chairs, Gothic Mission Dining chairs, aswell as Liberty & Co, and Harris Lebus & Shapland & Petter, and Glasgow School Items, Rare Lights, and Oak items, such as, Hallrobe, Dining tables, Chairs, Armchairs, Hallstand, Chaise Lounge, Writing tables & desks, side Tables, Bookcases, Display Cabinet, Chest of drawers, Bureaus, Bureau Bookcase, Dressers sideboards, overmantle Mirror, mirrors, lights ect. and also smalls and Collectables shortly, so please have a look if interested. Thanks. This is a stunning and quite rare Great quality design, late 19th Century Victorian, early 20th Century, Arts and Crafts Harris Lebus Golden Oak, Pierced Hearts and Tulips Motifs Copper Strap Hinges Bureau Bookcase / writing Desk, Design No. 156 , and dating to around c1900. It is a top quality and well made piece by the great maker Harris Lebus, and is a wonderful Arts and Crafts Design, and is quite rare. It has the design Model No. 156 and the Registered No. 465537 stamped inside the bureau section.It is made entirerly of solid oak, and has a beautiful grain and golden colour to the oak.It is a nice tall piece, and has a solid overhanging top section, with shaped front with curved edge and suported by 3 shaped supports in the centre at the front and a pair on either of the sides.Each side section has a great pierced 4 section design stepped down as it goes to the front, with a stunning and unusual pierced Heart Motif with a tulip in middle, with a further Glasgow School style long Pierced Tulip motif below. It finishes with a curved shaped pierced design at the bottom.At the top their is an open cabinet section, with a single shelf, with the typical Harris Lebus quality solid oak slatted back panel, which runs down the whole back of the piece.Below this is the Bureau writing desk section, with a sloping fall front, with a beautiful pair of solid copper strap hinges with repousse raised organic motifs. It still retains its original working lock and key, which still works, but the key is worn, and does not catch the lock completely sometimes, but still is enough to lock it, but would benefit from having a new key cut.Inside in a fitted compartment sectioned pigeon hole unit.Next is a single drawer, with a pair of coppered round backplates and handles, which do have some copper wear.Below is 2 further shelfs, which finishes off this stunning Arts and Crafts Bureau Bookcase.It is in overall very good condition, with some nicks and marks in places consistant with its age and use, and at the very top in the front of the curved section, I think it has had a small repair, which does not show.It is in stunning condition, and has a natural waxed hifghly polished finish.It stands 60 7/8 of an inch at its tallest, and is 37 inches at its widest at the top, and is 16 1/8 of an inch at its deepest, again at the top. The main section measures 30 3/16 of an inch at its widest and is 12 7/8 of an inch deep. We will also be listing soon, Art Deco Pieces of Furniture, including Figured Walnut Pieces, Oak Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, 19th Century Pine and Mahogany furniture, Some Retro 1950's and 1960's, and Eames Era, Modernist Furniture ect. All started at £1.00 with no reserve, so please take a look if interested, Thanks. Pay me with PayPal. I don't charge my buyers extra! #### We are based Near Deal (nr. Dover, Kent) and this can be delivered locally by us personally, within a 20 mile radius from us, FOR £20 - £25.00. (including v.a.t.) #### I can deliver to LONDON / beginning of Surrey for £45 - £60.00 (including v.a.t) #### or it can be collected from us. ####                                                                                           Or #### We can have it delivered anywhere in Mainland England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, by a Good Antiques Delivery Company, "Abbey Antiques". #### "We recommend  they will get this item delivered to you for a fixed price" (Some areas of Scotland are subject to higher charging.  For Example: North of a line drawn between Fort William and Inverness, Isle of Sky, some PA postcode areas.) #################  Prices in the table below, will have to have V.A.T. added to them. Thanks. ###################### ###### Also Abbey Now has made Insurance of each item Compulsory so it is 2%  plus V.A.T. of the items finished bid price . (e.g.  Item cost £100.00   -    Insurance cost - £2.00 plus vat , Total £2.35 to be added to the delivery cost .#####   Insurance is compulsory on all items, and is calculated at 2% plus VAT of the cost (bid price).   Destination 1st Item Additional items from the same seller to be collected at the same time       England & Wales  £60 £40 per item Scotland £100 - £120 £50 per item Ireland £150 £80 per item France, Belgium & Luxembourg £200- £300 £100 per item Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain , Austria & Portugal £300 - £400 £100 per item Switzerland £500 plus £25 Customs paperwork plus 7% Import Duty £100 per itemplus 7% Import Duty all prices subject to VAT ######## Delivery will take usually between 1 - 3 weeks. ######## For the rest of Europe and the U.S.A. and Overseas, please email for a quote for shipping, or can have it delivered to the nearest Port. Thank you for looking and please bid with confidence, only serious bidders please, and all the items we sell are guaranteed to at least be in the condition we state, money will be refunded only if item is found to be incorrectly described. THANK YOU AND GOOD LUCK   Powered by eBay Turbo Lister Powered by eBay Turbo Lister Place a Bid!