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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Svenedin, post: 2361472, member: 15615&quot;]So I thought I would play a little game in the style of Sherlock Holmes. I bought this desk from an antique dealer so I have no idea about the previous owner or owners. One owner is almost impossible but assuming one person owned the desk for most of its life........</p><p><br /></p><p>1) It was owned by a gentlemen of some means. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is easy. It would have been an expensive desk and it is obviously a gentleman&#039;s desk</p><p><br /></p><p>2) The gentleman wrote in fountain pen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again easy, lake of fountain pen ink in a drawer</p><p><br /></p><p>3) He was left-handed. </p><p><br /></p><p>Ink-stains in top-left drawer. Pens were keep there.</p><p><br /></p><p>4) He cared about the desk but was not very organised </p><p><br /></p><p>He used to pull out the top-left drawer and put his glass there rather than mark the top of the desk but why didn&#039;t he use a coaster? Ring marks in top left-drawer from a small glass. </p><p><br /></p><p>5) He drank</p><p><br /></p><p>As above. Drank spirits. A colourless spirit, probably gin. A navy officer?</p><p><br /></p><p>6) He smoked cigars</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom right drawer still smells of cigars and cigar boxes. Expensive cigars, Hanvannas. </p><p><br /></p><p>7) He drank too much</p><p><br /></p><p>Burn marks in various places</p><p><br /></p><p>8) He was inpatient</p><p><br /></p><p>Lots of evidence that he would pull out drawers a long way and shove them back in without lifting the weight of the drawer. Extensive and unusual wear to drawer runners. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, a bit of fun......[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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