Help identifying this Game Table?

Hi all,
I'm a newbie here. I have had the hardest time researching what kind of table this is. When my mom bought it a long time ago she was told it had been a game table since there are marks where the cover was nailed in along the perimeter. There are drawers on each side. I believe it's made of mahogany. I've never come across anything like it in my research and I'm hoping someone here would have insight.
Thanks!!

 

Welcome to the forum!

It is a game table. The extravagated rounded corners were originally used as candle holders. This is about all I can help with. Good knowledgeable furniture folks will surely chime in with more help. Following are links to a lovely George II game/card table in a similar *top* design as this one. Nowwww I am definitely not saying yours is of that era!!! I suspect?? yours might be more of late 19th century timeframe. Again do wait for other opinions. It may take a day or so for the furniture gurus to check in.

http://www.rubylane.com/item/943369-411JPY15X/English-Antique-Chippendale-Card-Table-18th

https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/t...-game-table-18th-century-c-1730/id-f_1514552/

--- Susan

 

I know little about furniture,but Id venture to say its exactly what she was told . It looks to me like more of a country made piece copying a finer piece. Its lovely,I like it so much better than most of this form. It has character.

 

Hola and welcome! If you would care to, you can post a self-intro in the Introductions Forum... it's a good way to let people know you and your interests.

 

I have a 1920ish walnut wood Singer sewing machine table with those exact same legs.

The rest of your game table appears to be red oak but are those legs a different wood? If so, I'd guess it was cobbled together from harvested legs and some older oak. Those legs look too well finished by comparison with the rest of the table.

 

Thanks, it might be red oak. The legs are definitely the same wood though. The lighting in the photo isn't great so I'll post another.

 

Late 19th or early 20th century game table. May be English. A look at one of the drawers might help to determine this. Leg shape is typical of the arts and crafts movement and is known as having a Mackmurdo foot.

 

Hi Brad,
Thanks for the Mackmurdo foot. I was thinking it was a Marlbrough foot.
greg

 

Very helpful, thank you! Drawers are hand-cut single dovetail. There are chalk-like markings on the bottom of each drawer. A single line, two lines, 3 lines, and a plus or cross on the last drawer.

 

Thanks for posting another photo and I agree the leg is the same (red oak?) wood as the rest. I still think it may be a game table that was cobbled together by a wood worker. Is the chamfer on the outer edge of the leg covered up by the stylized wood corner brace? Does that chamfer continue on up underneath that piece?

 

Antidiem, thanks for all your help! that's actually a chip in the wood. Hopefully the photos below illustrate what's going on better than I can describe. The corner brackets do continue all the way up. It appears that the brace was jointed to the leg using a chisel. The nail head looks like it could have been a hand-made nail unless that's just from wear and tear over the years.

 

Heidi, ok I can see it was once a chip then smoothed down and not a chamfered edge. I have bad eyesight, so to me the "nailhead" more resembles a peg? Or perhaps I'm completely missing the nailhead lol.

Anyway, next to the "round thing" (nailhead?) looks like a little spot where someone more recently may have taken a nail or brad gun and shot a trim nail in to tighten it up and then put wood filler to cover that hole. Is that what I'm looking at there?

It appears to have been refinished, not the original varnish or shellac, so I'd not be surprised if some added needed repairs were done at that time. The refinish looks to be no older than about 1980s polyurethane. I'd agree with Brad on the date, but it's probably impossible to say with any accuracy because this certainly appears to be a hand made one of a kind game table.

I don't know if you plan to sell it but price would depend upon what part of the country you are in? I'd try an auction house if I wanted to sell it but since I have a bit of "gambler" in me, I'd probably keep it and have card parties!

 

Yes there are plenty of places where the holes has been filled in, especially around the perimeter where the top was nailed on. It's definitely a metal nail head though. I probably won't sell it since my mother bought it when I was in high school so there are lots of memories attached to it. She paid quite a bit for it about 20 years ago. Probably over-paid!

 

Worth every penny paid, Heidi.
I think it's so cool! *smiles*