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Message:: [QUOTE="lizjewel, post: 2296524, member: 13874"]By marriage piece here is meant a fine piece of furniture to commemorate a real marriage, as in a union between a man and woman, am I right? Not two pieces of furniture from different eras stacked on each other, or? Having said that, and by no means being an expert on anything except maybe a few languages and fonts, I venture that the SEVEN in 67 may actually be a ONE. Old European numerals featured a "flagged" numeral 1, and a "crossed" numeral 7. Therefore it's possible that the two numerals could combine to make 61, not 67. That is neither here nor there EXCEPT if anyone good at research in the British royal and/or aristocrat annals can establish that a binding union as in a marriage took place between two individuals with the initials GR and BR in either 1861 or 1761, it might lead to a provenance, somewhere. Only a flight of fancy but then, that's my specialty.  A truly lovely piece. I am voting for 19th century, not 18th. Unless the mirror glass is a replacement, it looks too clean and fresh to be 18th cent.[/QUOTE]