AWARD WINNING RESOLUTE DESK PRESIDENT DESK PLUS BONUS 2 SETS NOW IN STOCK - GREAT CHRISTMAS GIFT Start Price USD 4,500.00 Current Price USD 4,500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, December 01, 2008 End Time Monday, December 08, 2008 Location Clearwater, fl See more about 'AWARD WINNING RESOLUTE DESK PRESIDENT DESK PLUS BONUS ' Description                                             THE RESOLUTE DESK                                2 SETS NOW IN STOCK IN OUR TAMPA WAREHOUSE For the first time ever on ebay - the exact replica of the President's desk.  Down to the finest, minute detail. Hand carved from solid mahogany and measures 72"w x 47"d x 32" high, just like the original.Functional drawers and cupboard doors open from both sides. The pictures do no justice. This same replica sells for $12,000 in furniture stores. Inside the Oval Office The President's Desk       In this famous photo, President Kennedy works at the Resolute desk while his son John Jr. peeks out through the open kneehole panel (that has the seal on it). This desk was made from the timbers of the H.M.S. Resolute, a British ship abandoned by its crew in 1854 after it became stuck in the Arctic ice. An American ship found it the next year and brought it to Connecticut. Congress spent $40,000 to rescue, repair, and completely refit the ship which was then given to the Queen of England as a token of friendship and goodwill. After the H.M.S. Resolute was decommissioned, Queen Victoria had a desk made from its timbers. She presented the richly carved "Resolute desk" to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880. The desk originally had a kneehole, a space in the center, but President Franklin D. Roosevelt requested the kneehole be fitted with a modesty panel with the Seal of the President carved on it. (He preferred people not see his leg braces and often placed a waste basket in front of his desks.) FDR did not live to see the new panel installed, but Harry Truman liked the eagle motif and had it installed when he became President in 1945. NOTE: The Seal of the President carved on the Resolute desk shows the eagle facing the bundle of arrows in its left talon. President Truman changed the design in 1945, so the eagle faces the olive branch in its right talon, as it has always done on the Great Seal. Every President since Hayes – except Johnson, Nixon, and Ford – has used the Resolute desk, although some chose to use it in their private study instead of the Oval Office.                                                                                                                                                                                                             The same desk with gold accents  (OPTIONAL EXTRA)                                                                                                                                                                                                BONUS: When you win this awesome desk you will receive the filing cabinet below as well as the full size credenza.Both created in the same design as the Resolute Desk including insignia and the famous Eagle.                                          Filing Cabinet 57"h x 27"d x 21"w                                                             Cradenza 81"w 24"d x 32"h So, bid and make sure you win - you might never see this great offer agian!Good Luck. Does not include S&H. Please email davidalurie@aol.com for prices to your zip.This item will ship within 1 week from close of auction.   Certain Images courtesy of the White House Museum. Place a Bid!