Rustic Gray Table with Drawer, FR-1141

Rustic Painted end table, 19th century A painted rustic, two-toned end table with drawer and shelf. The piece is constructed with mortise and tenon joints and a lipped top.The rustic patina and crackled paint are authentic to the piece which comes with age. Great height for a taller bedside table...

Antique French Baker's Console Table with Drawer The Antique Baker's Table with Drawer originates from France. The simple, elegant, curved legs, ...

Antique Trestle Table with Spindle Legs Item #: FR-0293 Dimensions: 45“W x 24”D x 27.5”H

Antique Baker’s table with green metal base. Decorative medallions and finials, scroll legs and marble top. Marble show some cracks and broken edge...

Antique French Table Item #: FR-2001 Dimensions: 37.5”W x 19”D X 34.5”H

Oak Trestle Table Item #: FR-1085 Material: Oak Dimensions: 59"W X 29"D X 28.5”H

Beautifully time-worn, antique, Southern European, chestnut wood end or side table. This relatively small size antique table is a joy to look at and the history of this kind of table makes it very interesting as well. Pay tables or paying tables were initially used by tax collectors and later in time (in the latter part of the middle ages), when most cities started to have their own currency, came the need for 'money exchangers'. A lot of the first money exchangers in 'early Netherlands' came from the Italian region of Lombardy and their name for these paying tables was 'banco'. Yes, it is this where also the English word 'bank' originates from. Pretty soon these money exchangers, who mainly serviced businessmen and travelers, also started 'safekeeping' and lending money. These tables therefor are at the very root of banking and just like some banks in this day and age, some of these earliest 'bankers' did not keep enough cash in their tables to be able to pay out when clients needed their money. This sometimes would lead to a lynching whereby the table of that particular money lender would be broken into pieces. The Italian word for such a broken table...

Handmade folk art table from northern Sweden made around the mid 1800s, circa 1840. The table is made by hand and is in untouched original condition with the original first paint. Th...

19th century Spanish two drawer rustic table with iron handles.

1920s Spanish pine wood one drawer rustic table.

Antique French Country Rustic Black Distress Painted 1 Drawer Breakfast Table. Item features a wooden plank top, black distress painted base, glass drawer pull...

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