Each with running gilt brass mounts, the baluster gallery above a pair of glazed doors enclosing two adjustable shelves, over a bevelled mirror inset back panel and ring turned front columns, with a chevron inlaid frieze below, above a pair of glazed doors enclosing two shelves, each: 92cm wide x 39cm deep x 224cm high, (36in wide x 15in deep x 88in high) (2)

Footnotes

By family repute the offered cabinets were made by the great grandfather of the current owner and vendor. His surname was Savigear and evidently he executed them whilst he was working for the Soho based cabinet making firm of Frauer and Sons, most likely during the 1890s. Unfortunately there seems to be no official record of Savigear, however in 1871 Frederick Frauer appears listed as a cabinet maker located on 46 Greek Street, Soho, in the Dictionary of British and Irish Furniture Makers, 1500-1914.
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