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<p>[QUOTE="lizjewel, post: 1943040, member: 13874"][USER=853]@charlie cheswick[/USER] : you say, .. <i>there is a shallow recess rectangle on top so im guessing it had a leather piece or something</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>I am with [USER=85]@clutteredcloset49[/USER] It's probably a ladies' vanity table (were there ever men's vanities?]. The shallow recess would have held a pane of rather thick glass, now removed. I saw vanities of this type when I lived in London, they were probably from the 1920's or '30s however. But the glass was there so that overflow from perfume flacons and cream jars would not accidentally damage the wood surface.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lizjewel, post: 1943040, member: 13874"][USER=853]@charlie cheswick[/USER] : you say, .. [I]there is a shallow recess rectangle on top so im guessing it had a leather piece or something [/I] I am with[I] [/I][USER=85]@clutteredcloset49[/USER] It's probably a ladies' vanity table (were there ever men's vanities?]. The shallow recess would have held a pane of rather thick glass, now removed. I saw vanities of this type when I lived in London, they were probably from the 1920's or '30s however. But the glass was there so that overflow from perfume flacons and cream jars would not accidentally damage the wood surface.[/QUOTE]
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