I'm afraid I don't know for sure. I would think there must be someone making them but have never tried to buy a new one.

A name I haven't seen before - thank you.

It sounds like your family have a very rich and interesting history

​@@CampaignFurniture I can see that you are a very lucky man, doing what you love doing. As to family - like all other families, there is a history, but few know much. My father was a liberal, with no great interest in family, and he felt socially insecure. His grandfather was a top cable engineer, who invented the Wilmot Automatic Transmitter - effectively an improved router for telegrams, when Superintendent of the Waterville Cable Station. I knew he was in Ireland, but was never told of his invention - perhaps my father did not know? / Like yourself, I enjoy a bit of detective work. Like how did my great-grandfather from the Bolitho family in West Penwith, Cornwall, marry a Macleod of Cadboll from Invergordon Castle. Two people born 730 miles by road apart, brought together by two country houses a mile and a half apart! / I don't know for certain, but I deduce the link was banking, and the River Dart in South Devon. This helped:- www.wdhg.org.uk/presentations/Houses%20of%20the%20Dart.pdf A cousin, Thomas Bedford Bolitho MP, owned Greenways, the house later owned by Agatha Christie, and now National Trust. Just north-west across the Dart lies Sandridge Park, then owned by Lord Ashburton, who also owned land in Scotland, and married a Macleod of Cadboll - a remarkable lady! So the link seems to be banking, Scotland, and the River Dart. / Lord Ashburton also owned an estate called Spitchwick, on the edge of Dartmoor near Ashburton, where my great-grandfather later built a granite manor house called Hannaford Manor. Bolitho's bank had sold out to Barclays in 1905, William and another Bolitho became Barclays directors, and William had not one, but TWO granite houses built at the same time ( the other called Trevelloe above Lamorna ). It must have been a profitable merger! / It suggests that William knew Spitchwick well, and it is possible there was a link through Harrow, and the Royal Devon Yeomanry / horses / hunting. Late in life, my grandmother would stay at Holne Chase Hotel, very country house relaxed grand, and very near to Hannaford, driven up by Langston the chauffeur/gardener in her ancient Rover 100. I often stayed with her at Trevelloe as a boy, travelling alone from Plymouth on the railway, and picked up at Penzance station by Langston, who was an ex-soldier, so I got on well with him. I did not know then that the Bolithos helped get the railway to Penzance, passing by their tin smelter at Chyandour. Thomas Bedford Bolitho was a director of Great Western Railway, and was invited by US railroad companies to give lectures on how GWR operated. / Looking back to the 12 year old me, I wish I had asked more questions about my family before my grandmother died. Only quite recently did I find a picture on the internet of her father, William, wearing the slouch hat of the Imperial Yeomanry during the Boer War, where he was awarded the DSO for leading a doomed forlorn hope assault up a steep path set in a 1,000 foot chiff, at Nooitgedacht - a British defeat. He looked just like myself - the resemblance was uncanny. And as a 12 or 13 year old boy, I had found a slouch hat in the cellar, and briefly wore it, before sadly losing it. / The past shapes our today. For example, I am a bit of a rebel. I wish I had known as a boy that two of my Macleod ancestors, both great(x6)-grandfathers, Macleods of Berneray and Cadboll, lairds who fought for Bonnie Prince Charlie. At Falkirk, Berneray led his clan at the age of 54, and killed a mounted dragoon, earning the title "Old Trojan". Amazing what the internet teaches me! But it does explain why the youthful me wanted to go to Sandhurst, and join the Black Watch, and why a South Devon boy's blood would rise at the skirl of the pipes! /

Thank you for your kind comment.

Your YT channel is a world tresure for we who love and learn from these artifacts. THANKYOU.​@CampaignFurniture

@@jpkatz1435 Thank you for your kind words

We have a local locksmith who can do most keys if the lock is removed for him. Stronger locks, of course, can cost quite a lot for replacement keys.

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The desk is part of a campaign chest. A video on it can be seen here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYK8o5qZp5dka6c

By today's standards, much campaign furniture would seem unnecessary but in the 18th & 19th centuries when many British army officers bought their commissions, the more comfortable they were, the better they thought they could do their job. Local labour to carry it was often cheap. One officer took almost an orchestra's worth of musical instruments with him!

​@@CampaignFurnitureYes, truly elegance under canvas. Believe me I've tried to justify buying one of these campaign book cases, I love the quality and craftsmanship, but I don't think that my wife would agree! Interesting fact about the orchestra, I do recall your example of one high ranking officers baggage running several miles of carriages or wagons. I think George Washington had a similar caravan on campaign

@@WestCoasHaze It was Sir Colin Cambell nicknamed Sir Crawling Camel by his troops. In India, William Howard Russell of The Times noted in his diary on the 2nd of February 1858 'Sire Colin Campbell's baggage &c. extended for eighteen miles, when he came down from Lucknow.'

The arm straps only having one position is unusual and perhaps indicative of its later date. I'm afraid the replaced cushions are not authentic to the original, which probably would have been a leather or oilcloth. We gave the wonderful Sally licence to give it a modern interpretation. I'll have a chat with Sally but I don't think she would do it.

MUCH thanks for your quick reply. If the Wonderful Sally is reluctant, for the present, to discuss her craft, of equal interest would be a vidio expedition to interview/chat with a willing devoted collector. Campaign furniture is itself "wonderfull" and a visit/viewing to a meaningful collection and collector will expand its appreciation and deepen the knowledge of us who love this furniture form.

We haven't seen any armchairs but I wouldn't be at all surprised if there were some in the original set.

1. I appreciate your reply. 2.Any indication of folding armchairs in historic campaign furniture catalogs?

@@jpkatz1435 We've seen a lot of folding and dismantling chairs in catalogues but haven't found any yet of Naval Chairs or of this form of chair. Most of the surviving catalogues showing portable furniture tend to be from the 2nd half of the 19th century.

Again, thankyou for your prompt reply(s). Any further thoughts on the posibilitys of visiting ardent/serious/ willing to share-educate campaign furniture collectors? I can only imagine a visit to an exquisite collection with you and the devoted collector sharing the love of the form.

@@jpkatz1435 Its an interesting idea but at the moment, I can't spare the time to do it. Finding a collector who would be happy to do it might also be difficult. Never say never but I can't see anything happening in the next couple of years.

Thank you very much for your kind words. I'm pleased you enjoy our videos.

You're welcome - thanks for your kind comments.

Thank you. Yes, I have been looking at the sound for a while. I do use a clip on mic but not while I dismantle furniture as it creates more interference. I tend to have it stationed close by.

@@CampaignFurniture We learn by experience! / I taught myself how to create graphic images to sell items on the internet more effectively, and often it is the mistakes I make that launch my style in a new direction. I enjoy the creativity. I have a huge range of textured borders, which means my ADVs on Gumtree are instantly recognisable as my work. I look back on my early efforts, and remember how proud I was of them, though now they seem amateur in comparison. /

@@CampaignFurniture Did they make ship's candlesticks to sit on a table? I just bought a heavy, wide mahoghany base with a short bronze candleholder in the centre. Beautifully turned, of a higher than normal quality ( for household candlesticks ), and clearly rather old. I googled, but can find nothing like it. /

@@zen4men take a look at the candlestick in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hGOygqOio96Ei80

@@CampaignFurniture Thanks - I saw that. I will take a photo, and send it to you. /

Dependent on their rank, yes, they would likely have had a batman or a servant to do the work.

See this video for similar showing how this type of washstand dismantles: www.campaignfurniture.com/campaign-furniture/other-camp-furniture/campaign-washstand-1 Its in our archive section on the website.

@@CampaignFurniture Thanks for the response. I enjoyed that video too.

Many thanks Mick.

Yes, you're right filled with sand but they may have had a number unfilled as well.

I would imagine that it was more focused on the decorative side with the chance that it may fool a thieve a bonus.