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KJ1592

United Kingdom
451 Posts
Posted - 21/10/2020 :  13:30:36  Show Profile
This has appeared for sale on eBay. I have no connection to it but an interesting piece of it is what it purports to be. It certainly looks right.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184495393073

Westbury

United Kingdom
1961 Posts
Posted - 21/10/2020 :  15:23:57  Show Profile
Hope it goes to a good home, Ian !

Chris
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sam christie

United Kingdom
3059 Posts
Posted - 21/10/2020 :  21:34:44  Show Profile






The seller has resisted the temptation to show the desk from exactly the same angle as the period picture. Perhaps the wood grain is clearly visible in one of the many photo's and books about the Man behind the MG Marque.







Sam
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Westbury

United Kingdom
1961 Posts
Posted - 26/10/2020 :  08:11:07  Show Profile

I see that the desk has effectively been sold with one bid already in and with 3 days and 11 hours left to the end of the auction .

Chris
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Gerhard Maier

Germany
866 Posts
Posted - 26/10/2020 :  11:25:57  Show Profile
quote:
Originally posted by Westbury
I see that the desk has effectively been sold with one bid already in and with 3 days and 11 hours left to the end of the auction.Chris
Yes chris,
I too had a sleepless night or two, like maybe some of us!
But in the end reason triumphed - - -
(Wouldn't the club office be the ideal place for Cecil's desk?)
Gerhard
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Westbury

United Kingdom
1961 Posts
Posted - 26/10/2020 :  11:41:53  Show Profile
Thanks, Gerhard.

Yes, it would be good if it was bought by the Club.
Apparently the desk has a label marked ‘MG1’ described as being the first piece of furniture bought by the Company.
Comes with the original sales catalogue.

Chris
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sam christie

United Kingdom
3059 Posts
Posted - 26/10/2020 :  12:41:25  Show Profile
It certainly looks quite like the genuine desk but more of those period photographs would help.

"as featured in many photo's and books about the Man behind the MG Marque " Where are these photos and books ?

Was this desk unique or to a pattern which featured in a catalogue?

"Every piece of office furniture in the factory was fitted with a factory plant tag - This one has the tag 'MG 1'. as it was the very first item of furniture purchased when the MG Motor Company started !!" . Presumably 'MG 2' is the chair and 'MG 3' is a coat and hat stand?

Since this desk was "purchased when the MG Motor Company started" it would have been delivered to the original premisses in Oxford. Would that have been 1923?

Does anyone know what label appeared on Kimber's other desk seen in this picture? 'MG 1 b' perhaps?





Anyone remember this?





Sam
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John James

United Kingdom
960 Posts
Posted - 26/10/2020 :  13:30:41  Show Profile
Remember the so-called Abingdon delivery bicycle which a chap in the US was about to buy before I advised him not to?

The M.G. Car Company was formed in March 1928.
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George Eagle

United Kingdom
3228 Posts
Posted - 26/10/2020 :  13:36:37  Show Profile
That photo is Douglas Bader plus dog in a TA - I think was aTA and not TB.

It would be interesting to know where that desk ends up, the MGCC archive is not suited to store such a large item of memorabilia!

George
L2023
Edited by - George Eagle on 26/10/2020 13:37:58
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Cooperman

United Kingdom
758 Posts
Posted - 26/10/2020 :  15:40:17  Show Profile
There was a lot of chat about Bader's car here https://www.triple-mregister.org/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15960&SearchTerms=Douglas,Bader

John Cooper M 628
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TCTom

USA
274 Posts
Posted - 26/10/2020 :  15:53:11  Show Profile
Anyone interested in helping finance the club’s acquisition of the desk? I’ll chip in
It is a bit big to fit in the archive but could easily take up station in the Thornley room.

Tom Wilson
Zionsville, IN USA
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sam christie

United Kingdom
3059 Posts
Posted - 26/10/2020 :  16:21:39  Show Profile
It is interesting to see how distressed the brand new desk was in the original pictures. I guess Cecil Kimber was working particularly hard at that time. Has the desk improved with age?

Does the side piece curve down slightly in the old picture?





Does the top overhang the edge more in the modern picture than the original? It seems to cast no shadow in the black and white picture.

Sam
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MH

Germany
199 Posts
Posted - 26/10/2020 :  21:19:00  Show Profile
....or the different bars.
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sam christie

United Kingdom
3059 Posts
Posted - 27/10/2020 :  00:52:38  Show Profile

It seems the auctioneers included this in the catalogue back in 1981 -





But not one of the many photographs has been produced to explain this -





Here is another desk on eBay (described as Edwardian) with a buy it now price of £550. It looks like this style was not uncommon.





Sam
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