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Title: Need help identifying a cobblers bench or tray
Post by: Sed777 on February 06, 2013, 08:04:42 PM

Inherited an old cobblers bench or maybe called something else.
All photos I find there is a bench attached, but this one has no bench and a cast or wrought iron handle.

Title: Re: Need help identifying a cobblers bench or tray
Post by: mart on February 06, 2013, 08:26:51 PM

Can you straighten the pic so its upright and take a pic of the underside ??

Title: Re: Need help identifying a cobblers bench or tray
Post by: greenacres on February 06, 2013, 08:35:49 PM

http://www.1900s.org.uk/images-1900s-cobbler-shop.htm

I just thought this was interesting. Haven't found a table with a handle.

Title: Re: Need help identifying a cobblers bench or tray
Post by: Sed777 on February 06, 2013, 09:00:09 PM

I don't know why. It shows sideways. When I click the link it shows right ways up.

I can get a photo of the bottom tomorrow...

Title: Re: Need help identifying a cobblers bench or tray
Post by: KC on February 07, 2013, 12:15:27 AM

Please give us the dimensions of the piece.

Title: Re: Need help identifying a cobblers bench or tray
Post by: mart on February 07, 2013, 04:42:08 AM

These old primitive wooden items are hot right now on ebay !!  If you look at Greenacres link,, lower left of the pic is what is more commonly known as cobblers tray !!  I have seen something like this,,, has a household use,,just need to remember what it was !!  Would have been placed across the lap when sitting and then carried by handle !!  Brain fog again !!

Title: Re: Need help identifying a cobblers bench or tray
Post by: KC on February 07, 2013, 11:12:24 AM

Mart, I am struggling with that myself.  This seems familiar and it wasn't a cobblers tray.  The piece across the table had a usage......ugggghhh hh.

Title: Re: Need help identifying a cobblers bench or tray
Post by: mart on February 07, 2013, 03:25:24 PM

I know I have seen one but I am blank right now !!

Title: Re: Need help identifying a cobblers bench or tray
Post by: Sed777 on February 07, 2013, 03:32:18 PM

I uploaded 2 more photos. 1 from the bottom and one from another angle.

Dimensions are
12 3/4" wide
17" long
 7" tall (excluding the handle)

Title: Re: Need help identifying a cobblers bench or tray
Post by: KC on February 07, 2013, 07:19:41 PM

Something about this feels Asian to me!!!!  Guess it is the way the top is, not smooth like a typical Cobblers bench...but ridged, almost like a bamboo effect.

Title: Re: Need help identifying a cobblers bench or tray
Post by: cogar on February 08, 2013, 05:16:45 AM

AWWW, come on, ya'll, ..... it is not a bench ..... or a stool.

It looks to be special made to carry items that are small and light in weight to wherever those "items" were to be used to perform a task .... or, it was carried to "wherever" and there used to perform a "specific" task.

 

Title: Re: Need help identifying a cobblers bench or tray
Post by: mart on February 08, 2013, 08:07:24 AM

I am still thinking kitchen, !!

Title: Re: Need help identifying a cobblers bench or tray
Post by: greenacres on February 08, 2013, 03:57:08 PM

Not to add my two cents lol, but it looks like it wouldn't be stable to carry with that handle. Wouldn't it teeter like a see saw?

Title: Re: Need help identifying a cobblers bench or tray
Post by: mart on February 08, 2013, 04:34:07 PM

Doesn`t look like it would to me the way that handle is attached !!

Title: Re: Need help identifying a cobblers bench or tray
Post by: greenacres on February 08, 2013, 04:39:27 PM

Maybe that is what the groove is for in the first picture. I just noticed that.

Title: Re: Need help identifying a cobblers bench or tray
Post by: KC on February 08, 2013, 07:00:43 PM

Just got a reply from my Korean friend (who is interior designer as well) and she states it appears to be Japanese in style and is either a snack tray or tea tray because they sit on the floor and eat.

Title: Re: Need help identifying a cobblers bench or tray
Post by: mart on February 08, 2013, 07:28:46 PM

I don`t know KC !!  This looks more colonial to me !!  I don`t see Korean or Japanese in it anywhere !!  Its made similar but is not in their style !!

Title: Re: Need help identifying a cobblers bench or tray
Post by: Sed777 on February 09, 2013, 07:05:49 AM

The handle was not meant to move. It's does slightly now from the rivet wearing the wood down a bit from age.

Than you all for trying to figure out what this is!