A Fine Victorian Gothic Revival Brass & Oak Umbrella/Stick Stand c.1870-90 sub-Curios The Q-ships were ballasted with

The Q-ships were ballasted with timber to keep them afloat should they be torpedoed

mounted on a wooden pole terminating in a silver painted finial

The wonderfully aged giltwood and gesso framed rectangular mirror with ribbon and corvetto ball borders

In very good condition the table retains its mostly original surfaces

now recovered from its ocean graveyard

A Fine Victorian Gothic Revival Brass & Oak Umbrella/Stick Stand c.1870-90 sub-Curios The Q-ships were ballasted withOrigin: English Period: Mid Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 90 Height: 26. 25 (at finials) Width: 12. 25 (at base) Depth: 7 (at base) The good quality Victorian rectangular brass gothic revival influenced two division umbrella or stick stand, having barrel turned brass rods with open trefoil geometric tops and clustered finials, the whole standing on a stepped rectangular oak base of fine colour, with removable part painted zinc drip