Can anybody put a name on this table

[birminghampotter]

So do u all think its a aristocrat table?

[DeanH]

Can anybody put a name on this table

Definitely an Aristocrate
just banter about terms of description

[maryfield]

Could be a Darlington Billiard Co table.Similar style.

[DeanH]

Could be a Darlington Billiard Co table.Similar style.

ahhhhh.....
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My view is that Riley sold their tables to others and made them for others to rebadge, as mentioned previously a badge is not definitive but can be indicative

[philip in china]

I didn't know that. For whom did they manufacture?

[DeanH]

I should have said, this is my view, nothing definitive but from some research I have many makers or a retailers name associated with a table and it is clearly the same as a Riley, or a Thurston, or a B&W model.
Retailers, understandable but I do think these makers did "sub-contracted" for some other names that possible could not continue making themselves.

Of course, there is the situation seen many times where another maker has updated a table with, say, their cushions/pockets, and changes the plates. This was quite common, but the first scenario above I think also happened.

[j6uk]

Turned bulbous fluted leg = Aristocrat

there are some lovely legs around, turned and then calved into. how much does that effect the value geoff, ornate legs means higher end table?

[DeanH]

The design you see on the Aristocrat are not as elaborate as most, quite plain in comparison (still possibly my fav though ) and I would not say the Aristocrat was a high end, more mid-level.
There are some legs that are works-of-art and would have been high end table but leg design does not necessarily indicate "level".

To confuse the thread a bit, it was possible to order an Aristocrat table with a turned straight-taper leg with no fluting or embellishments at all (very 70s).

[philip in china]

Mine has very austere square legs, but those suit my taste. De gustibus, non disputandum.

[maryfield]

Pretty sure they didn't. Hence the explosion of new companies in the 80's which were needed to keep pace with demand. Some real poor quality tables from this period.

[philip in china]

There certainly were. Of course at the prices at which some of them were churned out they couldn't have been any better.