Michael Craig & Company (American (South Carolina), founded 1987), contemporary. A fine flame mahogany veneer bookcase secretary secretaire created for the antebellum Millwood Plantation in South Carolina having a split arched molded bonnet top over a pair of beaded doors opening to an interior with two adjusting wood shelves with long polished brass hinges above a hinged slant front concealing an interior with nine secret compartments; 6 modeled as architectural niches centered by a removable four-slot chamber shaped as the Parthenon with Doric capitals, all above three beaded graduated drawers on Hepplewhite style splayed legs. The top drawer mounted to interior with tag "M. Craig & Company/ CABINETMAKERS/ COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA/Made in the United States of America". Approximate height 93", width 48.5", depth 27.5", depth open 43.5".
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