Newest find!!!! Any info is awesome!!!!

Found this antique end table this weekend. It has drop down leafs on both sides. The legs are spindle!! Carved underneath are the initials H A and the date 1825. Any information on this piece would be amazing!!!!! Actual age, value, maker!!!

I apologize for the pics!!! This is as good as I can get them from my phone!!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

 

Please always enlarge your photos.

 

Pity someone stripped the top ! Im betting that was the original finish .

 

Drop leaf sewing table.
Here's one they are saying Sheraton. You'll have to wait for brad to confirm.

As for the paint being original, I'm not so sure that they were originally painted.
Might be mahogany or walnut underneath.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ROPE-CARVED...272112?hash=item2356921ef0:g:sXcAAOSwd0BVyiOR

 

Here's a few more.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro..._nkw=MAHOGANY+ROPE+CARVED+WORK+TABLE&_sacat=0

 

I assume they mean Sheraton Hotels, or something. No way is that table in Sheraton style, it is just too fat.

Noit the OP's table, that looks like typical country furniture that will last as long as someong finds it useful.

 

Like cluttered/Pat said, it sure has the look of a Sheraton drop-leaf end table with those tapered spiral legs and arrow feet. Then again with the spiral legs it may by American Empire???

Spiral turned legs on these American Empire tables:
http://www.buffaloah.com/f/misc/A/A1/source/6.html
http://www.buffaloah.com/f/fstyles/emp/card/source/1.html

Spiral leg:
http://www.buffaloah.com/f/glos/legs/legs.html#Spiral
Arrow foot:
http://www.buffaloah.com/f/glos/legs/legs.html#Arrow

Bless it's heart, life hasn't been good to it. Again wait for Brad.

--- Susan

 

Try googling images for "pembroke tables" and see if you can find one similar.

 

Was the top REALLY stripped or did someone just clean a whole lot of DIRTY S*%T off of the top....because it looks like the finish is still there......to MEEE!!!

Edit: Also, aren't Pembrokes usually rectangular????

DBLE Edit: It's still a NICE table!!!!!!

 

I thought the definition of a pembroke table was "a small table with drop leaves and one or more drawers"

 

From one source "www.antiques.about.com" :
The Pembroke table is a small, light table, possessing two hinged leaves, which can be raised to increase the size, and a drawer at either end. The sides and table itself can be of various shapes, but a rectangular table with rounded or scalloped sides is the most familiar. Legs are usually slender, sometimes connected with an X-stretcher.

Dating from mid-18th century England (and possibly named for the Earl or Countess of Pembroke), it is typical of the portable furniture pieces popular at the time, and characteristic of Georgian, Neoclassical and Federal styles, including those of Chippendale, Sheraton and Hepplewhite (who called it "the most useful of this species…the long square and oval are the most fashionable" shapes). So, I guess it comes in many shapes and sizes!!

 

Nice little drop leaf work table. I usually think of Pembroke tables as being shorter but maybe this isn't always so. Could be as early as the 1823 date on the bottom but hard to tell. The spiral twist legs are throwing me as to style. Might mean that this is from across the pond.

 

http://www.onlinegalleries.com/art-and-antiques/search/pembroke-tables-rosewood-ireland/2
There is a whole range of pembroke tables on this site. It will give you an idea of prices asked by dealers in tip top condition. Fully restored yours will look really nice.

 

Sorry, I did not scroll through the pages. I thought it was all pembroke tables but they peter out after a couple of pages.

 

Thank you all for the wonderful information!!! You have been so helpful!!! Does anyone know off hand a possible value in "as is" condition?!?

 

I had one exactly like it until my daughter bought a house and absconded with it!! It's very nice.