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<p>[QUOTE="Darkwing Manor, post: 4394104, member: 738"]<font size="4">This is an early 20th century quarter-sawn oak (top anyway) example of the fascinating innovative (AKA metamorphic ) furniture types. They usually show up in commercial eating establishments such as taverns, starting the late 18th and early 19th century. I'm sure there are much earlier examples around though, humans being so clever and all. With the advent of steam power and factory mass production of furnishings, and with people moving off the farm into small tenements in the city with crowded quarters, innovative furniture really took off, often with humorous and sometimes startling results. I have even seen examples of bathtubs in pianos! Here's a good reference book on the subject. <a href="https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/9780818004513?shipto=US&curcode=USD&gclid=CjwKCAiA0KmPBhBqEiwAJqKK46btb51jw1U-lXwTHxrTgjrKacLCSGf8ku_gRgPNMDImHn8XmQq37xoCVpsQAvD_BwE" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/9780818004513?shipto=US&curcode=USD&gclid=CjwKCAiA0KmPBhBqEiwAJqKK46btb51jw1U-lXwTHxrTgjrKacLCSGf8ku_gRgPNMDImHn8XmQq37xoCVpsQAvD_BwE" rel="nofollow">https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/9780818004513?shipto=US&curcode=USD&gclid=CjwKCAiA0KmPBhBqEiwAJqKK46btb51jw1U-lXwTHxrTgjrKacLCSGf8ku_gRgPNMDImHn8XmQq37xoCVpsQAvD_BwE</a></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Aside from that, I don't know who the maker is. Any marks on the piece?</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Darkwing Manor, post: 4394104, member: 738"][SIZE=4]This is an early 20th century quarter-sawn oak (top anyway) example of the fascinating innovative (AKA metamorphic ) furniture types. They usually show up in commercial eating establishments such as taverns, starting the late 18th and early 19th century. I'm sure there are much earlier examples around though, humans being so clever and all. With the advent of steam power and factory mass production of furnishings, and with people moving off the farm into small tenements in the city with crowded quarters, innovative furniture really took off, often with humorous and sometimes startling results. I have even seen examples of bathtubs in pianos! Here's a good reference book on the subject. [URL]https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/9780818004513?shipto=US&curcode=USD&gclid=CjwKCAiA0KmPBhBqEiwAJqKK46btb51jw1U-lXwTHxrTgjrKacLCSGf8ku_gRgPNMDImHn8XmQq37xoCVpsQAvD_BwE[/URL] Aside from that, I don't know who the maker is. Any marks on the piece?[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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