Thomas Day Butler's Desk, North Carolina

Attributed to Thomas Day, Milton, NC, circa 1850, mahogany, mahogany veneers, yellow pine and poplar secondary, upper ogee drawer above a pullout fall front writing desk featuring a divided interior with birds-eye maple veneer above two long drawers with book matched veneer, flanked by convex applied columns and raised on stylized acanthus carved feet.

47 x 43 x 22 in.

Reference: Marshall, Patricia Phillips and Jo Ramsay Leimenstoll. "Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color." Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Figure with similar feet: 5.62. Related: Leland Little Auctions, December 7, 2013, Lots 722 & 724 (from the Home of Mable J. Hunt).

Wear and scratching to top; repairs to fall front lid by hinge area and lacking leather surface, crack and repair to lower left and right front feet; various minor veneer chips.

$1,000 - 3,000