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<p>[QUOTE="ElleNVee, post: 2258952, member: 15307"]Thank you. Still a bargain since I got it for $65 at a thrift store <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I picked it because I have a beautiful antique Bowl and Pitcher that my mom gave me. After reading the 'how to get a Best response message' I'm including some additional details. It looks as though it may have had an attached mirror or something? I can't tell how the marble-top was attached but as you can see there are holes in the back where screws attached something to it. It is 27"x30"x15.5"</p><p>It doesn't appear to me to have been refinished but those drawer pulls are awfully shiny. Could account for the differences in Wood color on the front as they may have originally been oiled or stained to match? If it was, it was done professionally. Not a DIY refinish.</p><p>I bought it in a thrift store in Phoenix Arizona. And on pulling the drawers out to get the pictures posted below I found a Christmas card to couple in Sun City from an elderly couple in Plymouth Minnesota. I understand the sets were mass-produced between 1880 and 1890. I only saw one other online with brown marble and none with the demon/gargoyle hardware. I'm very much an amateur antiquer but a pretty decent online researcher and couldn't find much. Here are some additional photos. I'll have to post a picture of the marble-top separately as I seem to have run out of space. the marble looks a dull. Any suggestions for care? =full]256610[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]256611[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ElleNVee, post: 2258952, member: 15307"]Thank you. Still a bargain since I got it for $65 at a thrift store :) I picked it because I have a beautiful antique Bowl and Pitcher that my mom gave me. After reading the 'how to get a Best response message' I'm including some additional details. It looks as though it may have had an attached mirror or something? I can't tell how the marble-top was attached but as you can see there are holes in the back where screws attached something to it. It is 27"x30"x15.5" It doesn't appear to me to have been refinished but those drawer pulls are awfully shiny. Could account for the differences in Wood color on the front as they may have originally been oiled or stained to match? If it was, it was done professionally. Not a DIY refinish. I bought it in a thrift store in Phoenix Arizona. And on pulling the drawers out to get the pictures posted below I found a Christmas card to couple in Sun City from an elderly couple in Plymouth Minnesota. I understand the sets were mass-produced between 1880 and 1890. I only saw one other online with brown marble and none with the demon/gargoyle hardware. I'm very much an amateur antiquer but a pretty decent online researcher and couldn't find much. Here are some additional photos. I'll have to post a picture of the marble-top separately as I seem to have run out of space. the marble looks a dull. Any suggestions for care? =full]256610[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]256611[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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