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Writing Desk: Site Map

External View

Top View
End View, showing recessed brass handles
Side view, showing lock
Rear view
End view

What Is Campaign Furniture?
Construction
History
Mahogany

Inside the Desk

Brass Mounts and Fittings
Contents + Contents in more detail
Desk Cover and False Bottom
Desk Maker's Label + Elizabeth Elvey, cabinet maker Engraved Brass Nameplate + Nameplate Inscription
Internal Tray + Internal Tray in more detail
Removeable Storage Compartment
Writing Slope

Documents Compartment
John Bull 1824 + Transcript, with Macquarie's death notice
Ayrshire Times 1860
Oban Times 1954

Museum of Sydney