Set of eight D. R. Dimes Windsor dining chairs. Two sack-back arm chairs and six bow-back side chairs. Strong and comfortable. Normal traces of seat wear commensurate with age. Arm chair dimensions: 41" high to the back, 28" high to the arms, 17.5" high to the seats, 25" wide and 16.5 " deep. Side chair dimensions: 38" high to the back, 17.5" high to the seat, 21" wide and 16.5" deep.
18th century Chippendale slant front desk in cherry. New England circa 1790. Full interior, hand-dovetailed drawers, drop lid over four drawers ending in bracket base. Good estate condition. Measures 41.5" high to the top, 29" high to the writing surface, 40" wide and 21" deep.
James H. Dew dining table. Handmade circa 1975 using 200-year-old pumpkin pine boards. Jim Dew sold D. R. Dimes furniture in his Guilford, CT, shop. He occasionally built bespoke tables for clients using 18th century boards. This table has a 4-board top and straight tapered legs. The top and skirt are hand block planed. It measures 33.5 inches wide, 95 inches long and 29.75 inches high. It comfortably seats 8. The finish is a rich honey color. The chairs are shown for scale and not included. The price is for the table alone.
Eldred Wheeler tiger maple slate-top lowboy in the circa 1750 style. Measures 30 inches high, 27 inches wide and 18 inches deep. Eldred Wheeler was established in 1977 and is no longer in business. In its day the company made the finest copies of authentic early American furniture. Please see "Eldred Wheeler / A Collector's Guide" by Emmett W. Eldred, pages 106-109 and 211, for reference to this exact lowboy.
Eldred Wheeler tiger maple two-part slant-front desk on frame. Queen Anne style. It was made at his shop at 293 Winter Street, Hanover, MA. It measures 41 inches high x 24.75 inches wide x 16 inches deep; it is 30.5 inches high to the writing surface. A beautiful, well-executed piece of reproduction American colonial furniture. Eldred Wheeler, no longer in business, reproduced the finest examples of period American furniture. The key did not come with the desk. Signed by Ben Wheeler and annotated by him: "The first tiger maple piece sent to the Keeping Room, December 1989".