New Mexican Table & Chairs (retired)
Nov 19, 2007 13:40:43 GMT -5
Post by American Girl Rescue on Nov 19, 2007 13:40:43 GMT -5
Introduced in 1998 for $75, retired in December 2014. Associated with Happy Birthday, Josefina!
New Mexican Table & Chairs
Item #JF (or D5967)
$75 (price increase to $90 January 2012;retired December 2014)
"In Josefina’s time, families did not sit at a table to eat. Instead, they served food from the table and sat on chairs or benches around the room. Your wooden table and two matching chairs are carved with a cornstalk design. The table has a pull out compartment for storing valuables"
This is a great quality set of furniture for Josefina's collection. Our table and chairs are Pleasant Company. The table measures 12 inches wide by 8 inches deep and stands just over 9 inches high.
The chairs are 6 inches from floor to seat and 12 inches from floor to top of the chair-back. The chairs' width and depth are both 6 1/2 inches.
The table is a very sturdy piece of furniture that is made with traditional mortise and tenon construction instead of with nails. All the pieces are then glued to stay in their appropriate slots.
There is a sliding top in the table-top that opens to reveal that the table-top is hollow where the family could hide valuables. You could fit a lot of things inside the table-top!
The carvings along the outside edges of the table top are supposed to represent cornstalks. It looks very hand tooled and authentic. There are also some carvings down each table leg. Everything is exquisite.
The chairs have an authentically hand made look to them too. They have hammer indentations on the seat, very similarly hand carved cornstalk images on the back, and the same mortise and tenon construction.
I absolutely recommend this table and chairs set for Josefina. The price is a bit steep, but the quality is wonderful. Grade A+
Josefina and the New Mexican Table and Chairs
Close up of the hand-carved cornstalk images on the front of the table. The carvings are also on the sides and the back.
Close up of the chairs back carvings.
The sliding opening in the table top which reveals the hidden storage compartment.
New Mexican Table & Chairs
Item #JF (or D5967)
$75 (price increase to $90 January 2012;retired December 2014)
"In Josefina’s time, families did not sit at a table to eat. Instead, they served food from the table and sat on chairs or benches around the room. Your wooden table and two matching chairs are carved with a cornstalk design. The table has a pull out compartment for storing valuables"
This is a great quality set of furniture for Josefina's collection. Our table and chairs are Pleasant Company. The table measures 12 inches wide by 8 inches deep and stands just over 9 inches high.
The chairs are 6 inches from floor to seat and 12 inches from floor to top of the chair-back. The chairs' width and depth are both 6 1/2 inches.
The table is a very sturdy piece of furniture that is made with traditional mortise and tenon construction instead of with nails. All the pieces are then glued to stay in their appropriate slots.
There is a sliding top in the table-top that opens to reveal that the table-top is hollow where the family could hide valuables. You could fit a lot of things inside the table-top!
The carvings along the outside edges of the table top are supposed to represent cornstalks. It looks very hand tooled and authentic. There are also some carvings down each table leg. Everything is exquisite.
The chairs have an authentically hand made look to them too. They have hammer indentations on the seat, very similarly hand carved cornstalk images on the back, and the same mortise and tenon construction.
I absolutely recommend this table and chairs set for Josefina. The price is a bit steep, but the quality is wonderful. Grade A+
Josefina and the New Mexican Table and Chairs
Close up of the hand-carved cornstalk images on the front of the table. The carvings are also on the sides and the back.
Close up of the chairs back carvings.
The sliding opening in the table top which reveals the hidden storage compartment.