Featured Drop leaf silver storage chest

Got this piece yesterday at a flea market and am not having much luck finding information about it online (other than a few similar pieces with little to no info). Does anyone know anything about possible age/origin/details?

It’s a drop leaf silver storage chest/table with pedestal base and brass feet.

Thanks a ton!!

 

That is cool! It looks quite short though. Awkward height for access to your table silver. My first thought was a modified neo-Duncan Phyfe side table. It doesn't appear to be a marriage though.

 

Looks like a converted 'work' table. Neat use.

 

Haven't seen one like this before , but a good size for a smaller home.

 

No marriage or conversion, an original silver chest table from Oneida Community, that Italic trademark would be circa 1940s-50s, though similar pieces were made earlier, offered by other manufacturers as well. I have a simpler Federal-style 1-tier table, they're nice, but you have to remove anything on top to access the silver...

~Cheryl

 

Here's a 1941 ad showing a waterfall chest table (mine has a similar shelf), the Italic trademark was in use by then, but not used here:






This 1953 ad shows the same label in a regular silver chest:





~Cheryl