An Early Victorian Painted & Stencilled Pine Side Table/Washstand c.1860 antiques Most schoolmasters would have used

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are very commonly misidentified as daguerreotypes

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An Early Victorian Painted & Stencilled Pine Side Table/Washstand c.1860 antiques Most schoolmasters would have usedOrigin: English Period: Early Mid Victorian Provenance: Gwysaney Hall, North Wales Date: c. 1860 Width: 41 Height: 32. 5 at gallery or 29 at top Depth: 21. 5 The decorative pine carcass showing the wonderful original paint being hand painted and stencilled in ivory and scarlet with line decoration and spandrels, consistently timeworn with age, having a faux marble gallery back over two frieze drawers with later porcelain handles, the whole upon turned