Charles Dickens Desk for Great Ormond Street Hospital auction
Published April 2nd, 2008
The desk and chair Charles Dickens used while writing “Great Expectations” will go up for auction in June at the London auction house, Christie’s.
The furniture is expected to sell for between 50,000 pounds and 80,000 pounds (US$100,000 and US$160,000; €63,000 and €101,000).
The mahogany desk dates to the mid-19th century and bears a bronze plaque describing its appearance in Luke Filde’s drawing, “The Empty Chair.” The author’s oldest daughter, Mamie, wrote in her memoirs that Dickens used the walnut chair and desk the night before he died in 1870. The desk has been in the family ever since
The money raised will go to the Great Ormond Street Hospital.
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