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What does a wardrobe in Baedeker style look like?

24 Jun 2008

Interesting news from the general antiques world: there is a wardrobe on sale (here - apparently it is from Crow's Auction Gallery in Dorking and selling tomorrow) which is described as "A Victorian Mahogany Baedeker Style Wardrobe".

Whatever could that mean? And no, it's apparently not a mistaken substitution for "Biedermeier", which was my first guess...

Is anybody in Dorking and could find out? (Dorking is, for the non-UK resident, a town in Surrey with a very large antiques trade.)

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