Today buying and restoring a roll top desk can be rewarding if you give it careful attention.
Repair antique roll top desk.
Roll top desks are a common restoration item.
A roll top desk s door or tambour is what sets it apart from any other wood desk offering a way to keep things out of sight out of mind after the day s work is done.
The above 1850 s walnut desk arrived in cardboard boxes and left as this gorgeous heirloom.
Roll top desks feature a flexible door or tambour made from several wooden slats which when pushed or pulled glide along side tracks to open or close the desk.
Baloncici istock getty images each desk featured a rolling door that slid up and down to reveal or conceal built in pigeonholes shelves and a flat writing surface.
The roll top desk was popular at the beginning of the last century.
This piece came into the studio nearly destroyed by water damage and age.
How to replace roll top desk cloth.
There are many markers that can help you identify the age and value of a roll top desk.
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I inherited my father s antique rolltop desk and it needed some dust removed from the rolltop to make it open smoothly.
Make offer antique mahagany grand rapids company roll top desk chair 37 drawers 1900 roll top antique quarter sawn oak 50 high s raised panel roll top desk 2 800 00.
I vacuumned the rolltop while closed along every movable part and moved the rolltop up and vacuumed the channels it moved in as much as possible.
How to repair a roll top desk.
They were mass produced to satisfy the demand.