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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 2528392, member: 6444&quot;]I think that is a different &quot;Antiques Exchange&quot;, located in Dorset. There does seem to be one that is or was on Tower Bridge Road in London, though website isn&#039;t active. You can find a phone number if you care to follow up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, there are &quot;antique stores&quot; and &quot;antique stores&quot;. Ones that sell only period furniture and stand by what they sell are relatively rare; ones that sell used furniture with both 19th and 20th century pieces, caring only about &quot;the look&quot;, are much more common. The one you found the carbon copy of yours in (marylebone.com) seems to be one of &quot;the look&quot; types of stores, selling more 20th century than 19th century (and almost no 18th century). I suspect if you can find the correct &quot;Antiques Exchange&quot; in London, that they do the same. Note that marylebone guessed the desk like yours as 1880 to 1900; I agree with others that it is likely more recent. But it really doesn&#039;t make much difference; it is far from period in any case so definitely a reproduction no matter whether it was made in 1900 or 1950. The original style this was based on would have been from the 18th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>The original Korean buyer of your desk may well have paid the price in the drawer, then paid to ship it. English antique stores are good at shipping overseas - a lot of experience shipping furniture to the US back in the day. The Korean buyers were willing to pay for &quot;the look&quot; without really understanding what they were buying. Bear in mind that the price in the drawer is without discount and is full retail, and is probably from 20 or so years ago when prices were much higher than they are now. So that 2900 pounds would be more like 700 today at full retail, much less outside of London, and lucky to get it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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