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#NS329

Country Sheraton table with 3 board T. & G. top & nailed breadboard end cleats, simple plain skirt all around tenoned into square shouldered turned & shaped legs ending in boot feet. Pine top, poplar or birch skirts, birch legs, nailed construction with early iron cut nails. Old tinted varnish stained surface with wear marks. Table is tight, & structurally sound. Possibly one breadboard end cleat an early replacement. Probably NYS. Circa 1820-1835. OH, 29 ¼"; Top, 67"l. x 26 ½"w.

$1850.

    

#NS341

Country Hepplewhite pine side table. The 1 board top with softly rounded edges is attached to the base by 6 original underside socketed screws. Plain skirts all around are tenoned into square tapered legs & double pegged. All wood is original. The table may have had a back splash at one time. Old tinted varnish surface. Last used as a sewing table with underside bird clamp marks and scissor stain marks in the top. #"357" is incised into a top edge. Table is tight & structurally sound. Probably New England. Circa 1800-1825. OH, 29 ¼"; Top, 42 ½"l. x 18 7/8"w.

$380.

    

#NS343

Country Federal tavern table with a 1 board pine top with T. & G. breadboard ends nailed to its plain skirted birch case. The skirts are tenoned into the square birch legs & double pegged. The leg edges are beveled, & the legs are braced above the feet by a plain box stretcher. Small butterfly patch in the top, otherwise all wood is original. Old tinted varnish surface. Very good example of a small plain country tavern table sometimes called a survival tavern table. Table is tight & structurally sound. From a NH residence and probably made in NH. Circa 1800-1825. OH, 26 ½"; Top, 38"l.x 24 ¾"w.; Case, 28 ¼"l. x 19 ½"w.

$690.

    

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