The bureau
Artefact
Flimsy sawdust-and-glue desk concealing documents of consequence. Furniture whose secrets are sturdier than its construction.
Appears in
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From the books (1 passage)
The bureau was quite a flimsy affair, some open cubby-holes and a lid which hinged crookedly over a couple of drawers - a thing of sawdust and glue, with a veneer which held the ensemble together much after the fashion of an exoskeleton. Mr Hawksmoor Perroquet found the drawers locked, withal, upon his searching out some coat hanger wire, eminently pickable. And so, with little ceremony, the two drawers slid…