19th Century English Architect's Partners Desk Jerry Connie Wald estate
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Architect's Partners Desk, drafting table top which can be adjusted in height; crank (missing) appears to slide out a panel under the tabletop. Tooled and gilt red leather table top, kneehole with hidden locking panel. Maker indistinct - …line & Co. Birmingham. From the estate of Jerry and Connie Wald. The last photo shows the desk at their home in Beverly Hills. 250-300lbs Connie Wald, a Beverly Hills hostess whose dinner parties began during Hollywood’s Golden Age and became an enduring social institution — part home-cooked casual, part parade of stars which included Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Audrey Hepburn. Jerry Wald, her husband, the go-getting Hollywood writer-producer of popular imagination: charismatic, ambitious, shrewd, frequently brilliant, and filled with a nervous energy driving him from one project to another. In keeping with his credo, that there were "no washed-up actors, only washed-up stories", he rejuvenated the careers of some of Warner's biggest female stars by casting them in some of the best-written films of the period: Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce (1945) and Humoresque (1946); Claire Trevor - in Key Largo (1948); and Jane Wyman - in Johnny Belinda (1948). Approx.
Measurements: 61 x 43.5 x 32 inches height.
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Measurements: 61 x 43.5 x 32 inches height.
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Condition
Good condition, significant wear to leather top, scratches, loss to crank. One key, can't open the hidden compartment under the desk.
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19th Century English Architect's Partners Desk Jerry Connie Wald estate
Estimate $6,000 - $8,000
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