Antique stand type table help on age and style

Looking for help on this antique table. Cherry wood? Measures approx. 21 deep x 26 wide x 28 high. What style would this be and approx. age? Do you think it may have been taller and cut shorter at some point? Estimated value? Thank you for the help.

 

Everyone will require more pics. Bottom of the table...inside of the drawer corner, lock up close and inside.
Right now all I can say is shaker in styling.

 

Shaker? I doubt it. Legs wouldn't be turned like these.

 

I know the legs should be square and plain...just the pull is shaker like...that's why we need more pics. The pull might be unoriginal cause the legs look colonial.

 

A piece I was looking at and don't have more pictures.

 

This looks like a something @James Conrad could help with.
I'm thinking early to mid 1800s. Sewing table.

Wait for other comments.
Are you in the US?

 

Sheraton "light" stand, now called a work stand with drawer. I'd guess 1840s-50s, machine made except for the drawer.
Value is low these days for late Federal era stands unless an outstanding example and early Federal.
I'd guess $100-300 at auction depending on condition.

 

No, 28 inches high is normal height for these stands although the photo does appear to make it look short. Probably just the angle of the camera.
Does look like Cherry in pic, hard to tell with this photograph.

 

Thank you so much for the help on this. Does a lock on an antique table or cupboard piece of early to mid 1800's indicate that it was a better made piece to begin with?

 

Not necessarily better made. Sold to people with a little more money maybe, so may have cost more at the time.
The lock allows something important to be stored without servants or others having access.
Has nothing to do with how it well it was made.

However, think of it this way.
It has lasted nearly 200 years, so it must have been better made than the everyday piece, which also could have had a lock.

 

I ended up buying the table for $125 from a private party. Here are a few more photos of it. Does the top look like one solid piece of wood? I cannot find seams on it. Also, does it look like cherry wood up close?

 

More photos.

 

Not really but, it did cost more originally.

I'd say you did well, $125 is fair. It's a very nice stand

Yes it does and looks like it is Cherry, it needs a new finish though, bad things happen to old furniture when the finish is damaged/missing.

 

The drawer pull looks original as well

 

Thanks for your reply. Do you have any recommendation on what be best use to put a new finish on it? Have refinished pieces but not for years now.

 

It depends of what you are using it for, if using as a lamp/bedside table almost any finish will do like lacquer/shellac, if using in kitchen or bath, I'd go with something tougher like oil or water based poly.

 

Thanks for the help!

 

I would add that with any new finish, the most important part is the prep work BEFORE you apply any new finish.
With those turnings & cherry wood, I'll guess NY or Connecticut as origin of your stand.

 

Thank you for the good advice and further info. on the table. I don't find any seams on the top piece of wood. Could it be a solid piece of cherry wood that wide?