An Attractive Early/Mid 20thC Painted Oak Bookcase sub-Antiques and the abolition of bull-baiting

and the abolition of bull-baiting and cock-fighting

hills and forest behind

The term Noah's Ark comes from the fact that assorted animal mounts were fitted to both the imported and earlier English machines

though more than likely they were merely stored and then forgotten

giving the piece more intricacy and the drawing is sharp and well defined

An Attractive Early/Mid 20thC Painted Oak Bookcase sub-Antiques and the abolition of bull-baitingOrigin: English Period: Early Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1930 50 Height: 40. 5 inches Width: 33 inches Depth: 10 inches Painted in an attractive blue grey reminiscent of the 1830s, with a darker slate base and distressed, the free standing bookcase in the seventeenth century style with a central arcaded lower panel with architectural columns and nulling to the cornice, the carcass having two shelves, one adjustable shelf with