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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 239072, member: 25&quot;]Any drawer where you have to do something else to release it is a secret drawer because it is only accessible to someone who knows what to do to release it. </p><p>Try to avoid flash with close-ups the flash burn renders your lock close-ups very hard to see. All pictures with flash burn should be discarded&nbsp; and done again using ambient light even if it involves moving the object to somewhere lighter or using an independent llight source.</p><p>I have just had a look at a stationary cabinet I have that has a Bramah lock, and on that it only says Bramah London.I think the cabinet iis about 1900.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]72846[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I think the idea of a royal household marking things by stamping a lock-plate is highly improbable. No one would do this because no one would have reason to do so. It&#039;s not the sort of thing someone could casually walk off with, like silver flatware that everyone had crested or initialled. </p><p>Maker&#039;s marks vary widely, there are probably many times more mark variants than have ever been documented and not all of the documented ones&nbsp; will have found their way onto the internet.</p><p>It is a fine piece but unless you could find some more positive provenance such as a picture of the desk in situ in one of the many royal palaces I think any royal connection is implausible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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