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An Unusual 19thC Country House Painted Oak & Iron Trestle Table c.1870 sub-Antiques The Sailor’s farewell was aOrigin: English Period: Mid Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 80 Length: 71. 75 Width: 33 Height: 27. 75 (all at top) The Victorian folding trestle table of good size and colour, with the original iron stays, having a rectangular six plank top in English oak with each end unusually period painted in a pistachio green, the whole on stretchered block legs and surviving from a country house estate. The condition of the table is chequered