1880's Roll TOP desk build by A H Andrews co - $2,000 - (Modesto, CA)
1880's Roll TOP desk build by A H Andrews co Desk is 6 Feet long 3ft 7inchs tall and 3 feet wideThere are 7large drawers 2 pullout shelves for extra working space 11 small drawers and 9 little cubby holes there is a key for the roll top Andrews (A. H.) &Co. This furniture company was founded in 1865 by Alfred H. Andrews, a Connecticut native who moved to Chicago in 1857. By the end of the 1860s, Andrews employed about 70 men, who made about $150,000 worth of furniture each year. By the beginning of the 1880s, A. H. Andrews &Co. had become the largest firm in the city's robust furniture industry, employing about 500 people and manufacturing about $600,000 worth of school and office furniture each year. During the 1880s, the company opened branches in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. Andrews &Co. started to produce metal furniture in the early 1890s, but it entered bankruptcy and went into decline soon thereafter.
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