A set of antique furniture linked to the last Tsar of Russia has turned up in a Tolworth charity shop.

The 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 helped to make for Tsar Nicholas II as a 14-year-old 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.

His daughter Irene Davies donated the pieces to the Fircroft Trust charity shop in Ewell Road after the family home was sold.

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

The charity shop originally priced the furniture at £30 a piece but, after being contacted, has now withdrawn the furniture from sale while it looks into its history.

Born in Drury Lane on March 14, 1902, Thomas (Tom) Alfred Baker became an apprentice at South & Co, in Clerkenwell, at the age of 14. 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 commissioned 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.

Prices of Russian furniture and art have rocketed following an influx of Russian money. Last week, a Russian Faberge egg was bought by a private Russian art collector at auction for nearly £9million, a world record auction price for any Russian art object.

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. Kingston has had its own Russian influx in recent years, with oil and gas giant Gazprom officially opening its new headquarters in Hampton Wick last month.

If any Russian oligarchs reading this want to contact the charity shop about the furniture, call 020 8399 3136.