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OUR REVIEWS ARE 

Nick Hewer (The Apprentice)

Hello Chris, Just wanted to say thank you. The chairs and table are absolutely beautiful - can’t stop looking at them and touching them! Sorry I couldn’t see you in person - I have a deadline for my masters coming up and I needed to do a day in the library! Also wanted to say I’ve shared your details on a closed FB group with 1.7k doctor mums who are interested in interior design and many are doing renovations. A few have already said they will make the trip based on the before & after pics, and I also connected with another client of yours who bought a large table and chairs!
Anyway- hope to do business again as we are really delighted. Thank you!
Best wishes, Anna

Wow! We absolutely love the table and chairs. Thank you so much. You and your team have done a fantastic job.
Thank you for delivering them today. The guys that delivered were lovely and did a brilliant job of installing it all too.
Janice
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ANTIQUE EXTENDING DINING TABLES
With OVER 200 antique extending dining tables for sale in one location just north of London, Elisabath James are simply the largest professional stockist in the World of genuine antique tables.
Covering the Goergian, Regency and Victorian periods there is a huge variety of designs and formats of extending tables available in all sizes for 2 to 7 metres length. Our team of 11 in house professional restorers will also hand finihs your selected table to specification and this is INCLUDED IN OUR PRICES.
4 Metre Antique Oak Table - Mid Victorian 12ft Extending Oak Dining Table With D Shape Ends
Price: £4900
Circa: C.1870
Stock Code: E1788
Large Regency Mahogany Table - Regency Revival Triple Pedestal Mahogany Extending Ding Table To Seat 14 or more
Price: £4400
Circa: Early 1900s
Stock Code: E1782
5 Metre Victorian Oak Table - 15ft Victorian Oval Ended Oak Extending Dining Table
Price: £8500
Circa: C.1870
Stock Code: E1776
8ft Oval Extending Victorian Table - Mid Victorian Trestle Support Oval Extending Mahogany Dining Table
Price: £2300
Circa: C.1860
Stock Code: E1774
15ft Antique Oak Dining Table - 5 Metre Jacobean Carved Victorian Oak Extending Dining Table To Seat Up To 20 People
Price: £8500
Circa: C.1890
Stock Code: E1773
12ft Round Extending Antique Table - Mid Victorian Mahogany Extending Dining Table Closing To a Perfect 5ft Round
Price: £6900
Circa: C.1870
Stock Code: E1772
Narrow Antique Extending Dining Table - Georgian Adams Styled 19th Century Mahogany Extending Dining Table
Price: £3750
Circa: C.1890
Stock Code: E1768
4 Metre Antique Oak Extending Table - 12ft Victorian Oak Extending Dining Table By Lamb of Manchester
Price: £6700
Circa: C.1770
Stock Code: E1766
Large Georgian Mahogany Table - 10ft George IV Mahogany Extending Dining Table
Price: £4900
Circa: C.1825
Stock Code: E1765
6 Metre Antique Dining Table - 19ft William IV Early 19th Century Extending Mahogany Dining Table
Price: £17000
Circa: C.1830
Stock Code: E1760
Large Victorian Wind Out Table - 10ft Victorian Mahogany Extending Dining Table
Price: £3450
Circa: C.1880
Stock Code: E1759
3 Metre Antique Oak Table - 10ft Victorian Oak Wind Out Extending Dining Table To Seat 12/14 People
Price: £2950
Circa: C.1880
Stock Code: E1758
Large Antique Dining Table - 10ft 3 Metre Late 19th Century Arts Influenced Mahogany Extending Dining Table
Price: £2900
Circa: C.1890
Stock Code: E1757
Large Antique Oak Table - 12ft Late Victorian Arts & Crafts Oak Extending Dining Table
Price: £4600
Circa: C.1880
Stock Code: E1750
6 Metre Antique Dining Table - 18ft Victorian Pollard Oak Dining Table To Seat 20 Comfortably
Price: £12500
Circa: C.1860
Stock Code: E1745
Original Georgian Dining Table - Large 14ft Regency Mahogany Extending Dining Table To seat 16 to 18 People
Price: £11500
Circa: C.1820
Stock Code: E1740
3 Metre Antique Mahogany Table - 11ft Mid Victorian Round End Mahogany Extending Dining Table
Price: £5200
Circa: C.1860
Stock Code: E1739
Original Georgian Dining Table - Large George IV Mahogany Extending Dining Table With Gillows Reeded Legs
Price: £4900
Circa: C.1825
Stock Code: E1731
3 Metre Antique Oak Table - 10ft Late Victorian Maples Design Extending Oak Dining Table
Price: £2950
Circa: C.1890
Stock Code: E1730
12ft Antique Oak Dining Table - Late Victorian Oval Formed Oak Extending Dining Table To Seat 14 People
Price: £4400
Circa: C.1870
Stock Code: E1728
3 Metre Antique Dining Table - 10ft Late Victorian Walnut Extending Wind Out Dining Table To Seat 12 To 14 People
Price: £3200
Circa: C.1890
Stock Code: E1725
Large Victorian Walnut Table - 250cm Late 19th Century Solid Walnut Extending Wind Out Dining Table
Price: £1650
Circa: C.1890
Stock Code: E1719
Antique Oak Drawleaf Refectory Table - Large Jacobean Carved Oak Tresle Pedestal Draweal Refectory Table
Price: £2800
Circa: C.1890
Stock Code:
Large Victorian Extending Table - 10ft 3 Metre Late 19th Century Walnut Wind Out Table To Seat 12 to 14 People
Price: £3200
Circa: C1890
Stock Code: E1706
3 Metre Mahogany Extending Table - Early Victorian 10ft Mahogany Extending Dining Table With Reeded Legs
Price: £4300
Circa: C.1850
Stock Code: E1699
4 Metre Antique Oak Dining Table - 12ft Late 19th Century Arts & Crafts Influenced Oak Extending Dining Table
Price: £3800
Circa: C.1880
Stock Code: E1698
4 Metre Antique Oak Table - 12ft Victorian Oak Extending Wind Out Dining Table With Rounded Ends To Seat 14 People
Price: £4200
Circa: C1880
Stock Code: E1696
5 Metre Victorian Dining Table - 15ft Late 19th Century Victorian Oak D Ended Extending Dining Table
Price: £6500
Circa: C.1890
Stock Code: E1685
5 Metre Antique Victorian Dining Table - Original 15ft Mid Victorian Oak Extending Dining Table To Seat 18 to 20 People.
Price: £8750
Circa: C.1870
Stock Code: E1670
3 Metre Antique Mahogany Dining Table - 10ft William IV Mahogany Extending Table With Fine Inverted Tulip Leg
Price: £4600
Circa: C.1835
Stock Code: E1662
Large Victorian Farmhouse Table - 19th Century Bleached Walnut Extending Dining Table
Price: £3700
Circa: C.1880
Stock Code: E1660
Large Victorian Extending Table - Late Victorian Mahogany Wind Out Dining Table To Seat 12 People
Price: £2400
Circa: C.1880
Stock Code: E1655
Large Original Georgian Table - George III Period Mahogany 10ft Concertina Action Extending Dining Table
Price: £6900
Circa: C.1810
Stock Code: E1654
Large Round Extending Antique Table - 12ft Early Victorian Demi Ended Mahogany Extending Table To Seat 12 to 14 People
Price: £5200
Circa: C.1840
Stock Code: E1644
Large 6 Metre Victorian Oak Table - Mid 19th Century 20ft Oak Extending Dining Table To seat Up To 24 People
Price: £13000
Circa: C.1860
Stock Code: E1637
Original Large Georgian Dining Table - 4 Metre Regency Period Mahogany Extending Dining Table On Gillows Leg
Price: £14500
Circa: C.1820
Stock Code: E1636
Post Regency Mahogany Extending Dining Table - 3 Metre Early 19th Century Mahogany Extending Dining Table
Price: £3900
Circa: C.1835
Stock Code: E1630
Large Antique Extending Oak Table - Victorian 3 Metre Oak D End Wind Out Dining Table To Seat 12 Comfortably
Price: £3250
Circa: C.1870
Stock Code: E1620
4 Metre Victorian Oak Dining Table - Late 19th Century Carved Oak Extedning Dining Table To Seat 14 to 16 People
Price: £4800
Circa: C.1880
Stock Code: E1611
French Extending Pedestal Dining Table - 11ft 19th Century Archetectural Pedestal Base Extending Table To Seat 14 People
Price: £5700
Circa: C.1870
Stock Code: E1610
Large Victorian Extending Table - 3 Metre Early Victorian Mahogany Three Leaf Extending Dining Table To Seat 12 to 14 People
Price: £4800
Circa: C.1840
Stock Code: E1601
3 Metre Antique Oak Table - 10ft Maples & Co Oak Wind Out Extending Dining Table to Seat 12 to 14 People
Price: £3400
Circa: C.1890
Stock Code: E1598
Antique Oak Refectory Table - 9ft Victorian Made Jacobean Styled Oak Drawleaf Refectory Table
Price: £1900
Circa: C.1900
Stock Code: E1597
Large Antique Dining Table - Early Victorian 3 Metre Mahogany Extending Dining Table To Seat 6 to 14 People
Price: £4900
Circa: C.1850
Stock Code: E1596
ABOUT ANTIQUE EXTENDING DINING TABLES
There are many designs of antique extending tables dating back to the earliest draw leaf refectory tables whereby extension ends slid from under the tops of refectory tables form 16th & 17th Centuries. This method has continued through to today for more primitive builds in modern dining and kitchen tables. Also, many French farmhouse tables from 18th and 19th Centuries constructed in cherry and walnut had bread board extending ends, often in a base construction timber of beach or pine. At the later end of the 19th Century, during revival of the Jacobean, Tudor and Gothic oak refectory table, many draw leaf refectory tables were made again with extending ends.In terms of formal antique extending dining tables the first category of design is the Georgian D end sectional dining table with drop leaf centre section and leaves which were made during late George III period and into Sheraton era. The extending nature of these was fulfilled by simple gating legs and hinged lopers set under the tops. All bar a few were made in mahogany and at one time these early period tables were the most prized of all antique dining tables but today not all folk are agreeable with the multitude of legs underneath.
It was in the very early 19th Century Regency period that new extending table innovations came to the fore with famous designers Gillows, Wilkinson and Pocock all introducing techniques to make the extending of a formal dining table more ergonomic. Wilkinson patented his concertina or ‘scissor’ action table around 1810 and this was utilised within the forms of up scaled Pembroke and fold over tea table formats to create an extending dining table that literally closed away to a side table and it is believe that this innovation was initiated for the wealthy estate owners who were now taking quarters in the evolving merchant and economic centres of London, Liverpool, etc.. although rare we do have original late George III Regency examples surviving today.
Pocock’s patent utilise the breakfast table format of sabre leg pedestal base and a hub of runners above that incorporated a sash pulley system to automate both ends extending away to allow space for extension leaves for a table of length up to about 8ft. The wining design that prevailed however stemmed from Gillows who illustrated his ‘Imperial’ table that was formed as two console ends enclosing a group of box section runners that met in that met in the middle to form a single unit table that could be made at any length. We’ve had examples up to 20ft length in stock here but typically a 12ft table or so would be average length and the versatility with extension leaves allowed seating for 6 to 20 people from the same table.
This superior ergonomic and ease of construction ensured that the Gillows format was adopted throughout the 19th Century for extending dining tables and further evolved to become a single unit runner system table by late George IV and into William IV period. By Victorian times pretty much all antique extending dining tables surviving today would be of this strongly built runner system format, large turned legs and leaf system to extend. Mostly made in mahogany until 1880 when loss of the Colonies meant a reversion to use of English oak. It was Joseph Fitter of Birmingham that dominated the steel winding mechanism production form around 1850 with most tables being fitted thereafter and in the amateur antiques market the tables are often referred to incorrectly as ‘Joseph Fitter tables’.
The 1st World War interrupted production in the UK and with timber shortages and skilled labour lost the last of the quality hand made extending dining tables were made in the 1920s, often following the revival of George III Chippendale design with cabriole ball and claw legs.