Antique Hand Carved Bracket Shelf

The history about this victorian shelf is bizarre. The woman who sold me the shelf is not in the circuit of antique sellers, she has a shop improvised in the first floor of his house in Alta Córdoba. She was reluctant to sell the things she had, and we do not go to the shop since a long time ago, when Sergio asked her a price and after he had put down a plate (it was hanging to high for her) she raised the price a lot. In fact, several times Sergio got inside the shop without me because it was stressing for me to be there. One of the first times we went there I look this shelf and got in love with it. Sergio did not want to buy it because he felt the price was very high, I think it was U$ 300. And he was right, a very expensive shelf of about 50 cm long. But I adore carved wood and the carving of this one is really marvelous, I let everybody to pass their fingers over because it invites to being caressed. She told me it was a piece of furniture of Estancia La Paz, where Julio Argentino Roca, twice president, used to leave (last picture). The next time we went the shelf was no there any longer and we were told that it has been sold. Two years after it was there again, our money sufferd a great devaluation in the meanwhile, so the price in dollars was a quarter than previously. The woman that had bought it sold it again because of the situation she needed the money. It was my birthday and I bought it. As the best things we have it is in the kitchen where we stay and look to it several times a day. As you can see in the third picture this is one of the more cosmopolitan angles of our house, the old table (dutch marquetry), the English plates, the argeninan mates and pitchers and the German? Shelf.