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I've inherited this table, all I know is that my grandmother (born c1907) always said it was expensive and never to get rid of it. Can anyone tell me anything about it, possibly including if she was right in it having good value?

I've no idea on the wood type other than it being solid, and it has been in the family for at least 50 years that I can confirm but possibly way longer. I can't see any repair work or damage. The table top is attached and spins on the attachment. There are no drawers or compartments except the the cavity underneath the tabletop.

I'd be incredibly grateful for any insight anyone can give.

 

19th century American flip top games table or card table.

 

and I just noticed a little bit of inlaid chequer parquetry around the base. These are a hard sell here in the south.

 

Is it not mahogany? In the first shot, the apron looks like it? I wish I was better with wood!

 

Thanks for the replies, very interesting reading. It's almost certainly English as my family lived all their lives in Newcastle, but there's a possibility it's been imported.

So it seems the consensus is that there's no significant value? We're clearing my mum's house and need to decide what to do with everything.

 

The apron is certainly mahogany veneers. I am thinking the top has had its veneers stripped off.

 

it’s an English gaming table ca. 1870 with mahogany veneer. You can’t buy this quality anymore! Everyone needs tables, so why not use this one-that you presumably got for free-and count yourself lucky! You can’t get anywhere near this quality with flat pack for 5 times the price!

 

keep it....... yer grandma said never get rid of it...... honour her memory by keeping it in the family as an antique to pass down to the kids...

 

I'd keep it and use it. It's ten times better than the cheap crap they sell now.

 

Absolutely. It's just good to know whether it can be kept round a toddler, or whether it needs wrapping in bubble wrap and separately insuring!

 

The toddler might "damage" it, but some call that it's history. We had a dining table my sibling kept specifically because he loved retelling the history, which included the spiral-graph indents and the area where dad pushed too hard signing his name to a check. All the pieces mom tried to keep nice and unused went unclaimed. The pieces we made memories in got kept.

 

Mirana, my dining room table (mahogany) has spiral graph marks from my kids & I & now imprints of Winnie the Pooh from my Granddaughter my middle Grandson when my husband was teaching him to write his name (both south paws) my youngest Grandson & I left matchbox car marks on a brand new leather sectional. Houses & furniture are for living & memories.

 

I love that!

 

Thank you! Some may not see it that way, but we do.

 

I own its twin, it was our dining table when I was small. Mahogany indeed. They’re usually early nineteenth when they’re as delightfully simple as this one.