Imperial Furniture Co. Mahogany Claw Feet and similar items

Up for bid is a mahogany claw feet, drop leaf table made by the Imperial Furniture Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Table has one drawer, with lion's Head hardware. Table width with the drop leaf down is 24 inches, and expands to 43 inches with the leaf's fully extended. Over the years, Grand Rapids has certainly earned the name ?Furniture City.?Important manufacturing entities such as Baker Furniture Company, Berkey Gay, Herman Miller Furniture Company, L. J.G. Stickley, John Widdicomb Company and many others are located there. If Grand Rapids is known as ?Furniture City,? the Imperial Furniture Company, established in that city in 1903 (one source says 1904), was once anointed (perhaps by itself) as the ?world?s greatest table makers.? F. Stuart Foote founded the firm; he was once the lumber buyer for L. J.G. Stickley. Imperial made all sorts of tables, desks, teacarts, china cabinets, buffets and chairs for dining tables. Products ran the gamut from telephone tables with small stools and nesting tables to tilt-top tea tables, book tables, end tables, extension tables, lyre base tables, console tables (with mirrors) and table desks.