Old table can someone tell me about it.

Real old looking table can someone Please tell me something about it.
It Grandma's old table.
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Hi everyone thanks so much for comments and the type of name given by you all on the coffee size table. Also it has the numbers on the wood of 13117 does anyone know what they mean.

 

Welcome to the Forums, Paul. I think the table would be described as a "trestle table", but there are plenty of furniture brainiacs here who will know tons more!

 

If the answer to this question is yes, I will explain. If not, ignore question.

Is there a yardstick printed on the top? Or, is the table exactly a yard wide?

 

It almost looks like it was hand made from parts that were acquired at different times. I can see a wood worker saying - "I've got a pair of legs, 2 posts, and all I need is a top". Looks like pine (or poplar) that was stained as it is really thick. If made from that thick of hardwood it would be so heavy you couldn't move it.

 

Is it coffee table size or dining room table size?

 

Trestle table is a good key word to use for search.

 

Welcome!

 

Hi and welcome! I'm wondering if it's a refectory table. It sort of looks like the iron supports might be added where it might have had a stretcher along the bottom. I'm thinking something like this but I'm not good with furniture. (not the style, the stretcher)

 

Design based on a classic Spanish trestle table.

Debora

 

After seeing this pic I'm going on the notion the OP's table was hand made - the one picture shows the "bumpers"(?) on the bottom of the legs are just eyeballed - not close to being in the same position from a jig as a furniture company/maker would have used to put them in the same position per leg bottom.

 

It is coffee table size

 

I'm dying to know what you're thinking!

 

The table is 46 inches long.
the legs or support wood that holds it up is about 1 1/2 inch thick.
Frame under the top of table is about 1 1/8 thick.
Judging from the weight it is not light weight wood.
There are two iron supports under and they look of old quality metal and even
look like is was hand made and are stained. Not sure about the metal how it
was made in them times but not real smooth this metal.
The table definitely looks like it was hand made. Accept for the wood which looks
like it came from a saw mill.
Can anyone guess on how old it could be,
or what the numbers 13117 could mean?
Thinking maybe a factory made using hand made workers there before are not having the best machines but not before screws where made. Sometime in between.
When wood was made 1 1/2 size. I mean if you called it 1 1/2 thick it really was.
The screws are rusted but look like they are machined made at factory i think.

 

Probably 1970s Spanish revival coffee table. Looks like pine. There were earlier versions but they were generally less chunky than this and made of hardwoods.

 

Hi there thanks for info on the wood.
I think before 1970. I mean it has the stain numbers that was used to make it left. At least that what i think they are. These where left by the furniture makers.
So if it was made by a furniture maker if was before band saw where used.
Most probably before any band saws where used. That is way before 1970. But not to far back. I am thinking maybe 1800 somewhere.

 

Hi say say_it_slowly, Thanks and everyone, for replies.
Well the iron supports may have been added i have no idea. It may have been stained again sometime way back.
The screws could been added on bottom also.
Would make it much, much older.
Anyway i added some more images of up close someone may give some more info on it. Anything helps.

 

That phillips screw, if original to the piece, confirms that this is 1970s. They did not come in to common usage in furniture until the 60s. Besides, coffee tables were not a known piece of furniture until the 20s-30s. Most were more modern in design during that era.

Such Spanish revival furniture was popular in the 20s but I gave you reasons why I don't think this a 20s piece above. In the 70s, there was a huge revival of the style and much of it was heavier and made from pine. Here is a 70s dining table made in the same style.

 

Hi veryband, thanks for the information. Phillips head screws where used after wwII some.
So this what i think could of happened unless there some more evidence that it suggest differently.
I been thinking about what you said loosing hope of this being old. But family says it goes back farther than that. So i did some further checking.
I could be that someone put them phillip head screws in to hold it down they all under the table holding on the the top of the table some have been removed even. Did someone need a screw.
Anyway i uploaded another image the screws are flat head and they look old original. I mean they look real old and they look hand made. So i going to throw loop on this and say the table maybe as old as the screws in picture. Which have never been moved. The screws may even be hand made look close.

 

I think the term you're looking for is "wrought iron"... as in hand made by a blacksmith.

 

Thank you