Cape Cod ‘in the rough’
US: ROBERT Eldred’s March 30-31 sale of Americana in East Dennis (Massachusetts) included what they first saw as a 2ft 11in (89cm) wide “mahogany Sheraton-style one-drawer console table”, consigned from a local, Cape Cod estate and valued at $250-350.
Viewing dealers, however, saw it as a Federal period piece of Massachusetts origin, c.1790, and of u…