News »  Regency Dining Tables Pedestal & Extending - Genuine or Fake Reproductions!?

Friday, January 31, 2020

So with the 'antique' furniture market now flooded with fake plywood Regency design tables on Ebay and other sites how will you avoid wasting your money on firewood of the future. Easy enough for us to say just come to Elisabeth James antique dining table but here are a few pointers;

• Any company offering you a Regency 'style' table is simply selling modern factory made veneered plywood and quite likely deliberatly commiting a deception unless they clearly state 'reproduction'
• Any company with a large stock of supposed 'Regency pedetal tables' that all look very similar with exotoc veneers, bandings,etc.. are selling reproductions.
• Any company selling 'antique dining table & chair sets' are selling reproductions. (very rare that table & chairs survive together or indeed were even made together)
• Any company selling 'Regency' flame mahogany', walnut, oak or decorative inlaid pedestal dining tables are just selling veneered plywood reproductions from Third World slave factories. (Only exception are breakfast tables and some large round centre piece tables which may be veneered). 
• ALL Regency period and later Revival pedestal dining tables are made from solid mahogany apart from the very odd exception in oak. (We have only seen two tables that were not mahogany in 35 years specialising)
• Any company using phrases such as 'Vintage Regency tables', often listed as 20th Century on Ebay, are simply selling modern factory made reproductions.
• Any company that cannot show you their restoration workshops, whilst claiming to stock a huge amount of antique furniture (all of which will need extensive restoration and a large team of people), are simply opening containers from the Far East and their only skilled employee is a lad with a Stanley knife opening the factory boxes!

Hope the above information is of help and please excuse any alarm caused within these facts but we sadly have so many customers arrive here clutching printed info from our 'competitors' websites of this reproduction 'style' junk. In truth, even the professonals visiting here, such as Lawyers, don't notice that the sales terminology used by some companies on the internet of the word 'STYLE' is actually to conceil the correct or legal description of 'REPRODUCTION'. Buyer beware as they say!