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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ghopper1924, post: 4291789, member: 5170&quot;]That&#039;s why we&#039;re here, to see what&#039;s what. MOS and Debora nailed the tapestry issue. 1901. I&#039;m not an expert like Joan, but I&#039;d bet the farm that the table is ca. 1850s, so evidently there was another tapestry there before this one, or some kind of game-appropriate surface treatment. I can&#039;t find out without tearing up the tapestry; needless to say that&#039;s not going to happen.</p><p><br /></p><p>The carving looks like John Henry&#039;s roses and vines, no doubt about it. And if it&#039;s not JHB, then it&#039;s somebody just as good, and there weren&#039;t many of those. But I will likely never know, and the quality&#039;s the thing anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I got in contact with the auctioneer, and she said she had the receipt from the last owner&#039;s purchase in the 1990s. Evidently it was worth $3400 back then. Not so much for me last Sunday, so all&#039;s well <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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