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Leaver, James (1861)

Leaver, James

Address not stated; metalworker (fl.1861)

Maker of the metalwork on the Richard Norman Shaw designed bookcase and writing-desk, which was carved and made by James Forsyth and exhibited at the 1862 International Exhibition. It was offered for sale at the Exhibition at a price of £80, (illus. The Decorative Arts Society (2014), p. 110).

Source: Donnelly, ‘Rapture and Ridicule – Furniture in the 1862 Medieval Court’, The Decorative Arts Society 1850 to the Present (2014).