By examining the joint in person. You can't tell a construction detail like that by looking at a photograph.
One good point about your table if it is drawbore joinery? It's likely to be period because fakers tend to miss details like that.
Yeah, i bet. Conservation folks have their work cut out for them ANYWHERE! It's hard to keep the past alive over time.
WOW! stunning windmill & watermill, very well cared for! Do they still work?
LOL, You would do very very well, trust me!
AHHHHHHHH HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, getting in the way of most peoples fantasy of Holland, windmills and tulips are you? You're right though, on another...
No worries greg, they have more!
LOL, That's Right!!! Those other 10 provinces don't count!
Yep, is. Hard to understand today how things were just a couple hundred years ago, that's for sure. Anything metal, including iron was like gold,...
No, isn't, and for a reproduction as well.
Thanks! I love it even though it's probably worth about half what i paid for it many years ago. As a collector, we can get away with not caring so...
Yeah, is. I can see why he's such a big hit, especially with children.
Yeah, those are called "drawbore" joints because when you bore the hole through the mortise & tenon joint, you offset the hole in the tenon about...
William, mascot at the MET & STAR! for many visitors, William is about 4000 years old....
Yeah, i am goin with moreotherstuff on this one, even though i know diddly about Delft. I have seen antique Delft at auction with other colors...
LOL @ me either!
There are no nails on this table except the 4 that holds the the drawer bottom to back of drawer frame. Everything else is pinned with wood pegs...
Interesting, i had no idea what a tiffen was till half way through this thread, now i know! :)
Slow in here so thought i'd post an old table of mine, coastal Connecticut 1750 or so, cherry base with a white pine top that is attached to frame...
Yeah, i know that's right if there is a dollar in it, happens in old furniture ALL THE TIME! In europe, there is an entire industry that...
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