Q: I scored this unique table for $10 at an auction and I'm having trouble finding an example of another one online. It's solid wood, but I'm not sure what kind. No markings on it at all. It has a pretty inlay on top, with glass. Maybe it's not a side table at all and I'm looking at it all wrong. Any suggestions? Have you seen one like this before?
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That is bizarrely cool. I'm thinking it's a pastiche - put together by some handy person out of spare parts. The table top looks like a mirror frame to me maybe, The big curvy leg could be a support from something else, even a boat! Enjoy.
Actually it looks like a table from a boat. The edges on the table suggests this.
Now that I'm getting a good look at it, I'd have to agree with Velourcat. It's from a boat.
From the photo it's difficult to determine size/height but could it be a reading/writing table you'd use while sitting up in bed or in a recliner or leaning against a big ole Oak tree:-)? Putting your legs on each side of that center "L" shaped deally.
I don't know, but it looks like an iPhone.
I'm a boat captain!
it must be designed for some specific task that needs the glass and the slight grade - stamp collecting? IDK but I hope someone does. At any rate, it's pretty cool.
It's a table used in a throatwobbler mangrove.
I'd bet it was some kind of table for a small boat. A chart could be placed under the glass, where it would be held flat and dry. The glass could be written on with a china marker, and would protect the chart if the table was used for other purposes, like dining.
Fancy 1940's high school wood shop project???
Yeah, I thought "boat" too, but with no other expertise than having spent a lot of time on boats as a kid.
Now you just need to get a yacht, and you're set.
My parents are big boaters and I spent my childhood on boats of various sizes--I can tell you that this is the table that would accompany a galley kitchen. So this is where you would sit next to the galley and eat lunch or dinner.
The boat theory is romantic and imaginative, but highly doubtful. This looks like early 20th. c. example of up cycling. All the parts looks as though they came from one or two other peices of furniture and reassembled into a new very funky little table. Marycooksalot and is also very clever.
I agree with SHANNANIGANS, first thing I thought was iPhone lol.
Don't know what it was, but in my space (small) it would be a great coffee table. Love those curves.