Can we date this stool?

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MJP

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Up to the tip with rubbish on Monday, came back with more than I took as usual, including this very nice oak stool (or is it a small side-table?). Can we guess a rough date? I'm thinking not later than 1950s. It's 42cm (16.5") tall, top is 25cm(10") by 35cm (13.5"). All solid oak and quite heavy. Originally had a maker's label underneath, it seems, but that was long gone.

Martin.
 

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It was almost certainly made during the interwar period. There was a fashion for vaguely Jacobean or Elizabethan style furniture that ran from the mid 19th century right up to the early 1950's, but it reached its height during the 1930's and was disparagingly dubbed "Jacobethan", because it was a mish-mash of styles with little historical accuracy (i.e. the curvy aprons without any carving or scratch stock beading on your example just looks wrong). Like yours it's normally ammonia fumed or stained Oak or Chestnut.

Today it's about as fashionable as a kipper tie, so pretty much worthless. Recently I saw a massive Oak court cupboard from the 1930's, complete with giant pineapple carvings, pass through our local auctions. The auctioneer didn't even bother taking bids off the wall, and it was knocked down for £2. The back panelling was useful and good quality 1/4" Chestnut, so I bought that from the buyer for the £2 he paid, and the rest he chopped up there and then in the car park to get in his car for kindling.
 
Thanks Custard - you've pretty much confirmed what I suspected. The fact that it was sitting in the council timber skip was the giveaway!
Still a nice piece of oak though...

Martin.
 
It's going to be handy for something, Bugbear - it's really solid. Apart from that i feel sorry for it, poor unloved thing.
 
We had someone here abouts wanting to date a vice last week, is it to much sun or something?
 
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