Lot 115: Trestle Dining Table

Pine, maple and cherry, breadboarded three-board top (38 1/4″ w), two arch foot trestles, pegged and mortised, chamfered cleats attached with screws, traces of original red on base, 26 1/2″ h, 8′ 6 1/2″ l, form fitting add-ons on bottom of feet add 1 1/2″, (ex. Pat Hatch collection). [Note: This table was originally from a house in Sterling, Mass. owned by a Shaker Sister who moved to her relatives house in Sterling when the Harvard Community closed in 1918. Sold at Skinner’s Auction in approximately the year 2000 to collectors Fran and Herb Kramer who sold it to Pat Hatch. The Shaker top appears to have been redone in the 1980’s with the four extra cleats chamfered and inset with the screws aligned in the Shaker way.] 

Estimate: $8,000-12,000