Owner: A year.

Douglas Stocks: A year! Only a year!

Owner: I bought it at a country auction in 2003.

Douglas Stocks: In Nova Scotia.

Owner: In Nova Scotia. The family thought the table came from Scotland with a Presbyterian clergyman around the turn of the century.

Douglas Stocks: Right.

Owner: I bought the table simply because I liked the style.

Douglas Stocks: Right.

Owner: And then after I got the table I wondered if, because of the lined inlay along here, whether it was possible it was made in Nova Scotia or the Atlantic Provinces, or is it a table that originated in Scotland or Britain.

Douglas Stocks: I think you’re absolutely right, that is a typical veneer that you see on Nova Scotian furniture.

Owner: I noticed it was lined right along the back, was this meant to be free standing?

Douglas Stocks: Let’s turn this around, you take that end, and we’ll lift it up and we’ll just turn it right around, so we can get a good light on it.

Owner: Ok. I wonder if the table was meant to be free standing in a room, not against a wall or anything like that.

Douglas Stocks: Yes, it would have been in the centre of a room. Feel the thickness of that wood and if you look… come down here and have a look… look at the thickness of that pine!

Owner: Yes, absolutely, to support heavy marble top.

Douglas Stocks: Yes, and I’d expect that if this were a Scottish piece, you’d have an oak secondary wood with a mahogany veneer over the top.

Owner: Because the underlying wood is pine, isn’t it? The glue blocks and…

Douglas Stocks: Yes, yes, the glue blocks, which are just perfect… when you first saw it, what was your reaction?

Owner: I thought, what a great, great table!

Douglas Stocks: I thought so, I walked in and when I first saw this I thought “Wow!” Because I don’t know of another one, I don’t know of a Canadian mixing table, definitely not a Nova Scotia or New Brunswick…

Owner: Wow!

Douglas Stocks: That appears to be the original marble, it’s got lovely colour.

Owner: Yes, it does, it’s a nice colour to it.

Douglas Stocks: And, have you ever thought about…

Owner: Price?

Douglas Stocks: Yes.

Owner: Yes, I kind of wondered. I paid $2600 for it.

Douglas Stocks: Well, that’s a lot of money, but I would say – to be definitive, you’d want to take a sample of the wood, the secondary wood, have it analyzed just to make sure it’s North American, but I bet that it is and with that knowledge -- because of the rarity of this piece I’d say a good solid $25,000.

Owner: Oh, my God!

Douglas Stocks: Yes.

Owner: Twenty-Five Thousand!

Douglas Stocks: Yes, rare form.

Owner: Oh, wow! Thank you very much.

Douglas Stocks: Thank you very much. I really enjoyed that.

Owner: Thank you. Twenty-five Thousand!

Douglas Stocks: Yes, very rare. Wonderful table, wonderful!