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<p>[QUOTE="Ghopper1924, post: 7800843, member: 5170"]That same article goes on to state:</p><p><br /></p><p>"a table designed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_William_Godwin" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_William_Godwin" rel="nofollow">E. W. Godwin</a> in 1868 and made in large numbers by William Watt, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Collinson_and_Lock&action=edit&redlink=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Collinson_and_Lock&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow">Collinson and Lock</a>, is a coffee table. If this is correct it may be one of the earliest made in Europe. Other sources, however, list it only as "table" so this can not be stated categorically. Far from being a low table, this table was about twenty-seven inches high.[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" rel="nofollow">citation needed</a></i>]"</p><p><br /></p><p>Looks like [USER=36]@evelyb30[/USER] was correct. Most Victorian tables in the U.S. are/were 29.5 inches tall. 27 inches is almost as tall, so this is not a coffee table in the sense that we use it. The coffee table is a post-World War II furniture type.</p><p><br /></p><p>Agree with [USER=37]@verybrad[/USER] on value. In my part of the U.S. Midwest $40.00 would be optimistic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ghopper1924, post: 7800843, member: 5170"]That same article goes on to state: "a table designed by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_William_Godwin']E. W. Godwin[/URL] in 1868 and made in large numbers by William Watt, and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Collinson_and_Lock&action=edit&redlink=1']Collinson and Lock[/URL], is a coffee table. If this is correct it may be one of the earliest made in Europe. Other sources, however, list it only as "table" so this can not be stated categorically. Far from being a low table, this table was about twenty-seven inches high.[[I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed']citation needed[/URL][/I]]" Looks like [USER=36]@evelyb30[/USER] was correct. Most Victorian tables in the U.S. are/were 29.5 inches tall. 27 inches is almost as tall, so this is not a coffee table in the sense that we use it. The coffee table is a post-World War II furniture type. Agree with [USER=37]@verybrad[/USER] on value. In my part of the U.S. Midwest $40.00 would be optimistic.[/QUOTE]
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