A Late 19thC Welsh Estate Made Black Painted & Scrub Top Pine Table sub-Decorative Objects “Perhaps being old is having

“Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms

The lower section of the heavy and well-made frame has loss

The torchères could of course be wired up and used to modern day standards or left as is for use with candles as intended

Major John Alexander III – whose career as a British Army officer included the capture of the last king of the Zulus

The condition of each would be described all the way from poor to fair to good

A Late 19thC Welsh Estate Made Black Painted & Scrub Top Pine Table sub-Decorative Objects “Perhaps being old is havingOrigin: WelshPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1880Height: 29Width: 48Depth: 33. 5Sourced from North Wales, the bold and attractive farmhouse estate made table, having a four plank scrub pine top with rounded edges over a black painted base to imposing well turned baluster legs and rule lined frieze to a single deep drawer with bronze swing handle, the whole surviving from late nineteenth century provincial Wales. The table is in very