Secretaries and Slant-Front Desks

A good assortment of late 18th- and early 19th-century slant-front desks and secretaries brought prices ranging from $1,840 to $82,800 at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. In their day, the pieces were the height of elegance, practicality, and design ingenuity. Slant-front desks open to interiors fitted with pigeonholes for organizing papers, several small drawers […]