Antique Primitive Pine Nantucket Meetinghouse Bench With Half Moon Cutout Ends

  With our absolute highest compliments Bay Colony Antiques takes the utmost pleasure in presenting this exceptional late 19th century antique meetinghouse bench. In the past few decades these antique benches have become some of the rarest pieces of early American interior furniture to come across anywhere. The popularity of the traditional New England style meetinghouse bench in the 20th century led to the production of many new contemporary reproduction benches. These examples can be hard to differentiate from the antique versions as quite often the newer benches are made from antique wood such as repurposed floorboards. While these newer copies certainly have a place in many rustic interiors we have always avoided offering them as to not detract from the genuine antique meetinghouse benches we try so hard to have represented in our catalogues. It is our privilege to offer this remarkably rare example recently procured from a family from Nantucket, Massachusetts who passed this benc