BY SAMUEL SOPER, EXETER, 1814

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A REGENCY OAK EXTENDING DINING-TABLE
BY SAMUEL SOPER, EXETER, 1814
Including five leaves and a leaf cabinet, on reeded legs with brass caps and castors, the later Victorian winding mechanism with a brass label 'Joseph Fitter, Patented, Britannia Works, Cheapside, Birmingham', fitted when the table was extended in length
27 in. (69 cm.) high; 204 in. (518 cm.) fully extended; 84 in. (213 cm.) unextended; 60 in. (152 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

Recorded as the 'Sett of Baluster Wainscott Dining Table -- 36.0.0' on Samuel Soper's Invoice to 'His Grace the Duke of Bedford', dated March 9, 1814 and also recorded as the 'Large Wainscott Dining Table' in the Dining Room in the 1839 Inventory.

The table is shown illustrated with a cloth-cover in an oil of the Dining Room by Lady Ela Russell circa 1880.

Joseph Fitter (b.1842) traded as a Birmingham machinist and applied for a 'British patern' for an extending dining-table in 1861. He was trading at 210 Cheapside, when he took out an advertisement as a manufacturer of a 'patent double action' table in 1870.

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