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Hey there. I'm brand new around this site and I know little to nothing about furniture. This piece has been in my house ever since I was a child and have no idea what it is. I've been told by my mother that it's a mantel and by my father that it's a hutch, but I don't think it's either. I was wondering if anyone could definitively tell me what sort of furniture piece this is?
Thanks to anyone. :)
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Hey there. I'm brand new around this site and I know little to nothing about furniture. This piece has been in my house ever since I was a child and have no idea what it is. I've been told by my mother that it's a mantel and by my father that it's a hutch, but I don't think it's either. I was wondering if anyone could definitively tell me what sort of furniture piece this is?
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Thanks to anyone.
You've got to do better than that with photos...
Really, was it not clear enough? Alright then. Here's something a bit bigger and brighter. Any ideas of exactly what it is, anyone?
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That's the top of an old bar.
Are you sure? How would it have been placed in a bar? These may seem like silly questions, sorry. I'd just like to know as much about it as possible before I decide to sell it. Also, how much should I sell it for?Quote:
Originally Posted by drcollie
EDIT: Nevermind, I asked someone else and they told me that it's a mirrored hutch. I looked up images and they look similar to my piece. I looked up "old bar tops" and couldn't find anything even remotely close to it. Thanks anyways. :)
I'm not sure these two are necessarily inconsistent.
As I understand it, a "hutch" is a piece that goes on top of a base cabinet of some sort.
So it absolutely looks reasonable to me that this is a mirrored hutch.
Then the question is, what would one do with such a mirrored hutch? Where would it be used?
It seems absolutely reasonable to me that this would be used as the top part of a bar counter, to house the alcohol bottles.
It looks like the counter top of many a bar I've seen.
Of course it depends on the dimensions. And back in the day, there may have been other uses for such a hutch. I guess it could have been used behind the counter of a different type of shop to house their products: a perfume counter, a candy store counter, etc. Maybe.
Maybe they also used this type of thing in bedrooms, as a rather oversized (to say the least) vanity mirror? Or in living rooms? For what I don't know. They put mirrors over fireplaces a lot back in the day, but I don't see how this would get there.
If someone finds out how they used those things I'd be curious to know.
Back in the sixties, "triple dresser" for bedrooms was popular. This is an example of the top that went over the drawer base.