Regency metamorphic furniture

The 1963 Bulletin of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art noted a little-known London inventor, George Remington, took out a 14-year patent on a globe table in Dec 1807. A few months later, the rights to produce his invention were bought by cabinet makers Morgan and Sanders Co.English globe writing desk, c1810, Morgan & Sanders.This company had produced a working model of Remington's patent by 1809, when their first article appeared in the Ackermann's monthly Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics. A more complete description of this model was published in the Ackermann’s Repository in Feb 1810. This second article called the model Pitt's Cabinet Globe Writing Table in honour William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806). He was the British politician who'd been the youngest Prime Minister in 1783 at 24! He remained in office, on and off, until his death in 1806 and was famous for leading Britain during the great wars against Emperor Napoleon and his…