A set of antique furniture crafted by a cabinet maker who helped make a similar set for the last Tsar of Russia in 1916 has been discovered in a charity shop in Tolworth.

The set of bedroom furniture was made in 1930 by craftsman Tom Baker as a wedding present to his wife Grace and is based on the design of a set he made for Nicholas II 14 years earlier while an apprentice for cabinet makers South & Co.

The six pieces, which include a bed and a wardrobe, had sat in the Baker's home in Field Close, Chessington, for nearly 50 years until Tom's death aged 102 in 2005.

After deciding to then sell the family home, his daughter Irene Davies donated the pieces to the Fircroft Trust charity shop in Ewell Road. She said: "We didn't want to give them away but we just couldn't find room for them. "It would be ridiculous for someone to break up the set, and I'd love for them to be bought as a whole. We did show photos to an auction house in Dorking before we gave the furniture away but nobody seemed to want to put a value on it."

She added: "It would be lovely if it was worth something and the money could go to the Fircroft charity."

Following enquiries by the Surrey Comet, the charity shop, which had originally priced the furniture at just £30 per piece, has now withdrawn the furniture from sale in order to look into its history.

Born in Drury Lane on March 14 1902, Thomas (Tom) Alfred Baker became an apprentice at the age of 14 with a firm of cabinet makers, South & Co, in Clerkenwell, where he earned seven shillings and ninepence a week, seven shillings of which went on his keep.

In 1916, soon after he began his apprenticeship, the firm was comissioned to make a suite of bedroom furniture, including a bed, wardrobe, dressing table, bedside table and chest of drawers, for Tsar Nicholas II, a project Tom himself worked on.

Nicholas II was the last Tsar of Russia and came to the throne in 1894, living in the Winter Palace in St Petersburg. In 1917, Nicholas was forced to abdicate and six months later was executed along with his wife Alexandra and his five children by the Bolsheviks on Lenin's orders, ending the 300-year Romanov dynasty.

Following the influx of Russian nationals into London and Surrey in recent years, prices on Russian furniture and art have rocketed. Replica pieces of furniture based on designs taken from the Winter Palace in St Petersburg are now being sold online for more than £5,000. Last week, a Russian Faberge egg was bought by a private Russian art collector last week at auction for nearly £9million, a world record auction price for any Russian art object.

If you would like to contact the charity shop about the furniture, call 020 8399 3136.