MULLENS'S furniture sale next Monday evening promises a collection of mostly Victorian and Edwardian pieces. A fine walnut and satinwood serpentine display cabinet is expected to be the top selling lot, carrying a catalogue estimate of £3000-£4,000.

One of the more unusual pieces, however, is lot 150, a French kingwood breakfront side cabinet, dating from around 1880. This is a monumental piece of furniture, redolent of grand Victorian salons, and certainly one to impress. Measuring 10ft in length, it has a mottled marble top above two central panelled and inlaid doors, flanked by a pair of grill-fronted two-door cupboards. The whole piece is supported on brass-toed cabriole legs. It has an estimate of £2,000-£3,000.

A Victorian walnut Sutherland table, circa 1860 according to the catalogue, has a very handsome veneer with delicate satinwood inlay, and it is estimated at £1,600-£2,200. A Victorian walnut side cabinet could fetch £2,500-£3,500. The same estimate applies to lot 184, a Georgian, mahogany slope-front bureau dating from around 1780.

Edwardian furniture features strongly and among the best pieces is a mahogany china cabinet, with bowed glazed doors on either side of smaller astragal glazed doors, below a bevelled glass mirror. It could fetch up to £1,600.

An Edwardian, satinwood elbow chair with a high Art Nouveau-style shield back is estimated at £800-£1,200, and a mahogany two-tier etagere, also Edwardian, carries the same estimate. From the same era, a mahogany bureau bookcase of slender proportions has attractive, shaped glazed doors and a handsomely fitted interior. Just 30 inches wide, it will fit nicely into even a small room. It is estimated at £800-£1,000.

Other interesting lots include an impressive set of Hepplewhite style dining chairs - 10 chairs and two carvers (£2,500-£3,000); a William IV mahogany-framed couch carrying a rather low estimate of £400-£450; a 66-piece Copeland Spode dinner service decorated with tropical birds (£800-£1,200); and a white marble chimneypiece with a central panel carved with grapes and vines (£800-£1,000).