Antique furniture

[policerevolvercollector]

My wife and I love to go to antique shops and have a particular fondness for late Victorian /Early 20th Century furniture. This English "Drop Leaf" table in Tiger Oak from the 1920's followed us home today. Any other furniture afficianados out there?

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Not really an afficianado, but about everything I bought new is now an antique.

 

[johngalt]

I like real wood furniture. So much of it now is just sawdust and glue with a thin wood veneer. Antique is about the only decent quality.

 

[jag312]

I like your tile floors. Easy to keep clean.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

The table I'm sitting at is exactly like that! I've had it since before I got married in 1978. If it wasn't an antique before, it is now!

Over the years, I've had 4 other similar tables, but in different sizes. The size you have there is and was always the most popular size. In the bigger sizes, the support arms give out when the tables are over loaded or teenagers sit on them, so the size that gets normally folded up, is the size that survives! Our current Kitchen table is a similar design and size, but was brand new for our 25th anniversary! I think it is wise to stick with what works!

Ivan

 

[WuzzFuzz]

Antique me, sitting on a new piece of furniture.....What a contradiction!!!!!!


WuzzFuzz

 

[rustythread]

One of my part-time jobs while I was in law school was working for my wife in an antique furniture restoration enterprise. She was a talented finish formulator (learned from her dad, who was a chemical engineer in the paint-making business). I did the repairs, and she did the finish restoration.
We worked on one piece at a time, in the living room of our apartment. We also did on-site work on pieces too large to move to our place. Got to work on a number of pieces we could never afford to own.
Nicest piece I can recall was a mahogany drop-front made in New England about 1745, and handed down in the original owner's family to the person for whom we did the repair and restoration. The crate in which it was being shipped to the then-owner had been dropped and crushed, in addition to some warping and over 200 years of "take it out on the lawn and varnish it " every 20 years or so. We found original undisturbed finish under the drawer pulls, and my wife was able to duplicate it after we crefully removed all the later layers from the rest of the piece.

 

[Retired LTC USAR]

I have a few pieces of antique furniture that were my grandparents.

My dining room table is a 5ft found table, but it has seven 1 foot leafs which makes it a 12 foot long table when they are all inserted.

 

[kwselke]

I'm not a collector, but have a piece with a story.

One of my Great-great-grandfathers was a Methodist minister who was not happy with the outcome of the U.S, Civil War. He packed up the family and moved to British Honduras (Belize). He established a mahogany plantation. They did good work as far as I can tell.

The family started sending women folk back to the states for education around 1910 or so.

The table I have is amazing to me. There is a bunch of solid mahogany there.

 

[jsfricks]

I bought one of those English pub tables with matching chairs a few months ago at a local auction for a little over $200. It’s in nice original condition with just the right amount of wear in the right places to show it was probably actually used in a pub for many years.

 

[Weimar]

My wife and I love to go to antique shops and have a particular fondness for late Victorian /Early 20th Century furniture. This English "Drop Leaf" table in Tiger Oak from the 1920's followed us home today. Any other furniture afficianados out there?

heavens thats beautiful

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something I learned many years ago when it was in style to strip them down to look new was that in the middle to late 1800's, rooms were dark and oak, although a fine wood, was considered the everymans wood and that many pieces were painted AT the factory in bright colors to brighten up rooms.

However, I will take oak anyday over what experts say is beautiful, a piece that looks like it came from the barn and hasn't been cleaned!

 

[shouldazagged]

I'm pretty old myself, and that drop-leaf table is gorgeous. I've never seen one exactly like it.

The mahogany piece is a stunner too.

 

[TheHobbyist]

I am a big fan of antiques and antique furniture. So much so, I actually have 'over flow' of antique furniture. My thought is first that my wife and I like it; secondly, that for about the same cost as new you get better quality; and third, it is an interesting hobby. I started collecting antiques when I was about 5 years old and I still have much to learn, which is part of the fun.

 

[italiansport]

We used to have a house full of 18th and early 19th century furniture but we sold it before we move to Arizona. I found this 18th century English secretary as a basket case and it took me over 6 months to restore it. The satinwood veneer had bubbled in hundreds of places and the unit itself was in parts which required a great deal of precision hand re-glueing. Anyway here it is:

 

[Coldshooter]

I'm not a collector, but have a piece with a story.

One of my Great-great-grandfathers was a Methodist minister who was not happy with the outcome of the U.S, Civil War. He packed up the family and moved to British Honduras (Belize). He established a mahogany plantation. They did good work as far as I can tell.

The family started sending women folk back to the states for education around 1910 or so.

The table I have is amazing to me. There is a bunch of solid mahogany there.

My wife was given a mahogany secretaries desk from the era you are talking about. It was very good quality furniture at a regular family's ability to afford.

 

[Chubbo]

Antiques

My wife and I love to go to antique shops and have a particular fondness for late Victorian /Early 20th Century furniture. This English "Drop Leaf" table in Tiger Oak from the 1920's followed us home today. Any other furniture afficianados out there?

.44Special:
My wife, and I, both qualify as antiques, as well as the house full of antique furniture, that we live in. At 86 years of age, and being married for 76 years, the sad, or maybe the laughable thing about it is, that we bought ours back when it was new, and the latest style obtainable. We just, don't have to go to the antique shops, to find them.

Chubbo

 

[TX-Dennis]