Their carefully built work is an amazing combination of art and engineering. The Roentgens – German decorators in the 18th century – were like the late founder of Apple Computer masters in the development of beautiful objects for households filled with brilliant, functionality and entertainment. This thing has hidden drawers in hidden drawers, all operated by a sophisticated mechanical system:

The hidden drawer design comes to its zenith from a desk designed by the Roentgen brothers for King Friedrich William II. I guess the paranoid engineering CEOs today are still in their modernistic escape bunker with some underground compartments. Secret compartments such as this have been a common characteristic of furniture in the Victorian era. The documents were a record of John Dee 's interactions with angels. A couple years later Susannah, a widow now, has the courage to take the papers with her.

Some time before the couple planned to put paper back into the box, their maid used some half of the paper to make pastry. A huge amount of papers, mysterious writings and signs, were poured out in an olivewood rosary. We heard a rattling inside and investigated a hidden cabinet. The pair spent twenty years with their hearts before they wanted to switch them one day.

Robert and Susannah Jones, a married couple, purchased a large used chest in 1642.

1840 desk with hidden compartments