An Early Victorian Rosewood Lap Desk, rectangular with canted lid, inlaid with a plain brass str

An Early Victorian Rosewood Lap Desk, rectangular with canted lid, inlaid with a plain brass string with foliate pierced angle motifs and vacant shepherd's purse cartouche and key escutcheon, the interior with six pen, ink and accessory compartments (two lidded), and gilt and blind tooled writing slope, 35.5cm wide