JL George Hardwood Chest, c.1940s, Made in Shanghai

I’ve posted JL George furniture before (use the blog search engine if interested). The firm interests me because they were enormously popular with both Chinese and foreign homeowners and because they are a good example of a big Shanghai company that moved to Hong Kong in the late 1940s. Here a camphor wood lined & decorated hardwood chest with interior tray made in Shanghai before 1949 at their premises on Avenue Road (Beijing Xi Lu)…