Early 19th Century Antique Federal Tiger Maple & Cherry Dropleaf Bakers Table
With our absolute highest compliments Bay Colony Antiques takes the utmost pleasure in offering this exceptional antique baker's table. We have been privileged to have owned some remarkable early American baker's tables throughout decades of dealing and collecting and we count this offering among the very finest we have ever owned. In the past several years we have owned important examples from Cape Cod, Pennsylvania, and the Hudson Valley of New York each of which found their way into the beloved collections of passionate antique enthusiasts. Baker tables are among the rarer forms of early American tables and many of which are products of the mid to late 19th century. We typically find these tables with distressed surfaces such as scrubbed old growth pine or with a faded old paint wash finish which show signs of continual use throughout centuries. To find an example constructed with old growth tiger maple lumber from the earliest part of the 19th century that has been well cared for i