That tag is also written in biro, so definitely not 1915.
Afternoon TZ,
I've had this extending coffee table for a few years now, and I'm going to be making my own, so this will be going soon.
I've realised I know very little about it, other than I think it's teak, which this label appears to confirm. But can anyone decipher the other writing?
TOSCA g TEAK TABLE?
The date looks like 7/12/15 but surely it's a '70s table? The digit that looks like a 1 is very different indeed to the 7 at the start!
Any ideas on the designer or manufacturer?
I can find no manufacturer labels on it, other than this:
That tag is also written in biro, so definitely not 1915.
So clever my foot fell off.
I opened this in expectation of something to do with a tryst involving a scarecrow and his sweetheart.
F.T.F.A.
I thought this was going to some new take on speed dating or something
I thought it might have been a glass coffee table
I FEEL LIKE I'M DIAGONALLY PARKED IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE
Titling it was half the fun.
Also had:
How to date a coffee table
Dating a coffee table
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Very good point on the biro Flying Banana!
Could it be a bad 8, so 1985? I really have no idea how to assign dates to construction methods or suchlike.
I may just have to stick with the generic 'mid-century style', but it's a shame when there's a label that gives more...whilst also giving nothing.
Could it be 75?
Well that was disappointing, I thought this would be a confessional about objectophilia.
I’d have guessed at 1960s. Some of the scribbled characters on that label are so badly formed that it could possibly be a “6”.
I think there might be a clue in the assembly number. Maybe this is the 353rd table of this style built in year”63”?
The writing is pretty sloppy and my 5’s sometimes look like 3’s when I write quickly. If you look closely the top line of the last digit might be thicker than what a single stroke of a pen would look like. That last number in the date could be a 3. That does not explain the digit before the last number though. It doesn’t look like a 1 to me, more like a lazy letter C. C has the same initial shape as a 6.
Nice table! I don’t think knowing the correct date of manufacture is going to make any real difference in price though.
Pretty sure that is 75, it is way more like the 7 than it is the 1.
207 is written (downwards) over the end of the Tosca
That was my thought, but it's not similar to the first 7. I was hoping that the styling might give more away, but I guess these style of tables have been reproduced for many many years, so the styling doesn't really give much away.
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This is very true - I hadn't clocked the 207 written downwards, cheers!
Good point on the possible 3! That would be being very precise, which I think might be impossible given the whole mixture of things to go on.
And you're quite right about the price, this is not an expensive Danish piece by any means, it's more just to be precise in the advert. Which I don't think I'll be, and instead leave it as mid-century style!
Does the table come with any stools?
Style wise this is more fin than mid siecle.
The scandis were making similar style (but much simpler and without being offensive, more elegant) versions from the 50s onwards, and this style only really caught on over here 60s and later.
It is very much like a set that my in-laws were gifted mid 1970s (new), and the extension system, which adds functionality but also reduces the grace of the table as the ends need slides underneath, is a later type of addition to this sort of table design.
If I were to guess a single year without the label, I would have said 72, which is why I am convinced it is 75 (no other number makes sense).
[QUOTE=AlphaOmega;5833607]Does the table come with any stools?[/QUOTE
No but it's not glass so that doesn't matter.
Absolutely no offence taken! It's definitely on the chunkier side, and certainly doesn't have the elegant, contoured lines of the Danish and Swedish ones (that seem to be priced at over a grand around here in the 'right' shops). It cost around 100 quid a few years back, and was definitely bought for its practicality before its looks, but I do quite like it. This one's internal leaves hinge underneath and pivot, which I rather like. Though the extra leaves do add to the visible thickness of the top section, as you note.
I've left out the dates from the advert as I think it's safer to leave it up to the buyer to decide.
It would have a Danish furniture board stamp if it was from Denmark, (I have Johannes Andersen and Henning Kjaernulf both stamped) or a factory stamp like Velje Stole, CFC Silkebourg or similar.
Is it metamorphic? Looks a bit like the Trioh ones.
Maybe the typeface will help date it?
I'd be interested to see a shot from underneath, to view the method of joinery.
Can't quite read it but it looks like someone has written WG was here underneath that table.
Looking at the style of the legs, I would say 60’s/70’s. Nice piece.
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