Antique Cast Iron & Maple One-Piece Schoolhouse Desk with Folding Seat View Watchlist >
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Lot # E499
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Antique Cast Iron & Maple One-Piece Schoolhouse Desk with Folding Seat
A classic American one-piece schoolhouse desk from the late 19th to early 20th century, combining a cast iron frame with solid maple top, seat, and back panels. The hinged lift-top reveals a book storage compartment, the slatted folding seat tips up to allow the next student behind to stand and recite, and the sculpted cast iron sides carry the flowing scrollwork typical of period school furniture manufacturers like Sears, A.H. Andrews, or Moulthrop.
Desks of this form furnished thousands of one-room schoolhouses and graded classrooms across rural America from roughly the 1880s through the 1920s. The wood surfaces here carry decades of pencil grooves, jackknife initials, and inked doodles — the unselfconscious record of generations of students. A handsome single piece for a reading nook, a child's room, or a collector of Americana and early educational furniture.
CONDITION
Good with age-appropriate wear throughout. Maple surfaces show scratches, scuffs, ink marks, and finish fading consistent with long classroom use; cast iron frame shows surface rust, paint loss, and oxidation, particularly to the feet. Hinges and folding seat mechanism function. Structurally sound and stable.
DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS
- Overall: 26 1/2" H × 23 1/2" W × 19" D
- Seat: 13" H × 18 3/4" W × 11 1/4" D
- Construction: Cast iron frame, solid maple top, seat, and back
- Frame Markings: "5R" and "5L" cast into iron sides
