Step Back in Time With an Antique Butler's Desk!

1930s Butler’s Desk $2,250

“The tag says it’s a secretary, but I think the correct term is butler’s desk,” explained proprietress Laura Cousineau. The piece in question is prominently displayed in the store’s front room and gets a lot of attention from visiting customers – three different people asked about it during my short visit. The price point is phenomenal.

Cousineau says the butler’s desk came from a Beacon Hill home where it was meticulously cared for and dates back to the mid-1930s. It was manufactured by Charak Furniture, one of Boston’s premiere furniture makers. Other pieces from the same company have been featured many times on PBS’s “Antique Roadshow.”

It’s a full-size, step-back, mahogany desk that fronts with inlaid satinwood escutcheons as handles. Dimensions of the piece run 76”H by 38”W and 20”D.

Also notable are all of the rare collectibles Cousineau has filled the piece with: a pair of McCoy bud vases, a portion of her Bobbesy Twins hardback collection, a Limoges plate, a Hull basket, a French medical book from the late 1800s, a pair of B&H Mt. Pleasant brass bookends and a blue ribbon art glass bowl.  All of these items are available for sale separately.