New Victor School Desk

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  1. Trevor Harvey

    Trevor Harvey New Member

    Interested if anyone on this forum has any information on New Victor school desks. Interested in the company itself and trying to determine the year of one of the desks I am currently refinishing. Interesting to me is that my current desk does not have an inkwell that is commonly seen. It has ornate cast iron legs and simply reads New Victor on the legs. No model, no other detail. Any information that anyone on here can provide is appreciated.
     
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  2. gregsglass

    gregsglass Well-Known Member

    Hi,
    I remember that our desks had added a pencil slot at the top before the ink wells disappeared. I grew up in the early 1940s.
    greg
     
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  3. Trevor Harvey

    Trevor Harvey New Member

    Greg
    Interesting. Yes, My desk only has the pencil holder and no inkwell. Appreciate the input!
     
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  4. judy

    judy Well-Known Member

    Hi Trevor!

    Welcome to Antiquers!

    Can you show us some photos?
     
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  5. Trevor Harvey

    Trevor Harvey New Member

    Hi Judy. I will work to get some found. I am having a hard time finding these exact pictures right now. I will post when I come across them.
     
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  6. judy

    judy Well-Known Member

    Great!

    We'll look forward to seeing them.
     
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  7. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    photo the desk yer working on.........
     
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  8. judy

    judy Well-Known Member

    :)
     
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  9. Trevor Harvey

    Trevor Harvey New Member

     
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  11. verybrad

    verybrad Well-Known Member

    Can't tell you anything specifically about the company but can tell you the basic design is late Victorian. This would put the design circa 1890 and likely produced for decades. By 1930, this design would have begun to have been phased out, though the form persisted. The lack of an inkwell on yours would indicate that the top was probably changed at some point or was a very late production model. Desks like this were used by school systems well beyond their production years. An elementary school I attended in 1965 still had them in regular use.
     
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  12. Trevor Harvey

    Trevor Harvey New Member

    Thank you. That helps dial in the range a little better.
     
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  13. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

    what - please - does the last row of pupils do ? sitting on the floor ? pressing their lower backbones to the wall ?
     
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  14. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    Communal bench bolted to the wall.
     
    daveydempsey, Dec 16, 2018
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  15. SBSVC

    SBSVC Well-Known Member

    In the book "blurb" I posted on Trevor's other thread about this desk -
    https://www.antiquers.com/threads/new-victor-school-desk-company-info-history.33193/#post-439430 -
    there was a notation of "7 No. 4 Rears" sold to a school @ $2.25/ea, along with 42 No. 4 desks @ $2.55/ea. It sounds as if they wanted 7 rows of 6 desks and had to buy the "rears" for the desks across the back:

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