Please help Identifying leather inlaid coffee table and end tables

Dear goodness no. No lacquer

 

Thank you! I wish I could place it. That helps a lot to get into a general timeframe.

 

Where did the casters for the feet go?

 

I was wondering that too. This looks like metal legs on the bottom

 

The legs look metal to me too. I have no idea what I'm looking at.

 

They looked wooden in the photos stuck on the ceiling, perhaps some amount of detail has been accidentally obscured. In my second look, they do look wood, but I still have no idea what I'm looking at.

@pyro it would be very helpful for you to take some photos of details.

 

They are wooden. What are the best close ups I can take to help?

hopefully these ones do not post upside down again but here goes! Maybe it doesn’t matter since the end table is upside down anyway...

 

Nice shots, @pyro , I see these appear never to have had casters or tip ends on the feet. They appear to be in very nice shape, if the top leathers faired well through the years. They look to be from the 1950s.

Some who know much more about furniture than I do -
@Ghopper1924 , @verybrad

 

Where are you located, Pyro?

An unusual set, for sure. I'm thinking 1940s on these, with an odd mix of neo-Victorian details and Deco or even Modernist lines. Hard to tell the wood except for the pine on the undersides.

Coffee tables did not become widely used until WWII and after, so I'd be surprised if they dated earlier.

To me they have an unusual appeal and would seem to have some value here in our depressed furniture market. Can't say how much, but would think a big city market would have more of the right buyers. Maybe $150-$200 for the set.

 

Pretty much in line with Johnny on this one. 40s or just a bit earlier.

 

Yes, 40's. I grew up with a pair in my house in Minneapolis. Mahogany veneer, I think. The gilt edge decoration was applied with a rubber roller stamp. Ours had small brass casters. I'm sorry I don't know where they were made, but I've seen lots of others in shops. They are hard to find with the leather in good condition, as survivors of that martini and cigarette culture. Mother unfortunately fell asleep a lot while smoking and covered the thin leather inserts with cigarette burns. It's a wonder we all survived.

 

Thank you all for the really helpful information. You are all very knowledgeable extremely responsive.

I am about an hour from Philly and Allentown PA. Near Reading area.

The leather held up very well on all three pieces - not perfect but I like the aging There is one extra shiny spot on one end table-no idea why. The coffee table has a small wobble but otherwise really nice.

Are you certain the wood is pine? On close inspection it looks like a single piece and it feels much harder than pine though it does look like pine grain to me also. You think it might be a well made veneer(mentioned above)? I’m having a hard time seeing the separation on the sides but I think I see it on the top. I took the second picture where it looks like veneer near the edge - but you all are much better at seeing that sort of thing.

Value-wise does that 150-200 sound about right for all three pieces?

The value does make a difference for me because my wife is pushing for me to get rid of them but I am torn on keeping them in my office instead. That is one of the reasons I asked you all, the experts. I really wanted to know more about them. Antiques have a story and I love them. I have another piece I was given by my father but that is for a different post. I was told it dates back decades further.

 

I think the underside of the piece(s) is pine. Mahogany veneer, as Darkwing said and is now obvious with your last photos. The value is probably OK, but I'd probably keep them.