What is a brass mounted card table?

A brass mounted card table is a folding piece of furniture designed for indoor games, featuring timber construction enriched with brass inlay or gilt-metal mounts. These tables typically include a top that swivels and folds open to reveal a baize-lined playing surface.

How were these card tables used?

These tables served as functional furniture for card games, social gatherings, and parlour entertainment in nineteenth-century homes. When closed, they functioned as side tables or console surfaces against a wall until needed for play.

How do I identify the period of a card table?

Dating relies on stylistic clues, timber choices, and specific decorative idioms such as Regency Greek key motifs or Napoleon III ebonising. Cabinetmaking techniques and the specific mix of brass mounts and veneers help narrow the decade of production.

Are these tables sturdy enough for daily use?

Most surviving examples are structurally robust, built by nineteenth-century cabinetmakers using dense hardwoods like mahogany and rosewood. Care should be taken with the pivoting and folding mechanisms when opening the top to protect the original hinges and timber joints.

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These brass mounted card table pieces bring folding surfaces of mahogany, rosewood, and kingwood together with crisp metal mounts for an elegant games room.