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Antique Questions Forum / Empire Parlor Table from Louisville ( Wm C Dodge)

« on: August 25, 2009, 08:32:45 am »

I recently purchased an American distributed Empire style parlor table (rectangular folding top that requires the top to rotate to open properly) for $200.  Nothing special except there is a distributors stamp of Wm C Dodge, forth st, Louisville Kentucky on the inside.  I also have been able to date the table to Civil War times or earlier as it is very close to a table I have seen in Abraham Lincolns house in Springfield and Mr. Dodges shop closed in the Civil War.
The mahogany veneered top  has a large age crack but does being a southern US piece make this worth anything? I don't find many references to Mr. Dodge of Louisville on the net.