Pre-War Fireplace Mantels

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1920s Walnut Mantel

The simplicity of the design of this fireplace surround allows the beauty of the bookmatched walnut frieze to be displayed to full effect. Above the spectacular frieze is a narrow carved band of a wave pattern

There is a geometric moulding around the fire opening set on plain block feet, the whole piece being finished with a plain flat top.

The mantel was originally installed in a house on Broadway in Wilmslow, Cheshire.

Condition: VERY GOOD

Overall Width 57 inches ( cm )
Body Width 57 inches ( cm )
Overall Height 52.5 inches ( cm )

Opening Height 41 inches ( cm )
Opening Width 41 inches ( cm )

Depth inches 5.25 ( cm )
Rebate inches 4.5( cm )

1920s Oak Mantel with a large mirror

An elegant 1920s fire surround whose main feature is the large bolection moulding that frames the whole piece. The moulding starts from simple, block feet continues to the top of the legs and across the header where a central plaque with carved edges adds a focal point.

Within this framework the recessed fire opening is formed from plain fillets with a horizontal moulded strip above.

A narrow frieze section is topped by a bowed central shelf which has a large mirror in the recessed panel above it.

Condition: EXCELLENT

Overall Width 51 inches ( cm )
Body Width 51 inches ( cm )
Overall Height 72 inches ( cm )

Opening Height 37.5 inches ( cm )
Opening Width 37.5 inches ( cm )

Depth including Shelf 7.5 inches ( cm )

1920s Oak Mantel

A simple design of mantel in nicely figured oak.

The narrow central shelf is supported by two rectangular brackets.

Three further brackets support the large top shelf.

Condition: EXCELLENT

Overall Width 57.75 inches ( cm )
Body Width 52.25 inches ( cm )
Overall Height 53 inches ( cm )

Opening Width 39.5 inches ( cm )
Opening Height 38 inches ( cm )

Depth without top shelf 3.75 inches ( cm )
Depth with top shelf 4 inches ( cm )
Rebate 1.75 inches ( cm )

Central Shelf Width 39 inches ( cm )
Central Shelf Depth 4 inches ( cm )

Arts and Crafts inspired Oak Mantel

This arts and crafts style fireplace mantel features square section pillasters with carved relief details topped with turned capitols.

The recessed frieze panels are separated by a central diamond motif in relief.

Both the fireplace opening and the shelf are finished with moulded edges.

Condition: VERY GOOD

Overall Width 58 inches ( cm )
Body Width 53 inches ( cm )
Overall Height 54 inches ( cm )

Opening Width 40 inches ( cm )
Opening Height 40.5 inches ( cm )

Depth 6 inches ( cm )
Rebate 2 inches ( cm )

Top Shelf Width 58 inches ( cm )
Top Shelf Depth 9 inches ( cm )

Late 1930s Mahogany Mantel

A splendid, late 1930s mantel in mahogany with scalloped shoulders and a central raised platform shelf decorated with intricate moulded details.

The fireplace opening has a shallow arched top framed with a small bolection. The corners of this moulding are circumscribed cross mouldings (a cross with a circle round it).

The whole outer shape of the mantel is skillfully framed with a moulded strip.

Condition: VERY GOOD

Overall Width 58.75 inches ( cm )
Body Width 58.75 inches ( cm )
Overall Height 58 inches ( cm )

Opening Width 42.5inches ( cm )
Opening Height 40 inches ( cm )

Depth 9.25 inches ( cm )
Rebate 2.25 inches ( cm )

Top Shelf Width 25.75 inches ( cm )
Top Shelf Depth 9.25 inches ( cm )

Large 1920s mahogany mantel with recessed frieze

An imposing fire surround in flame and fiddle back mahogany with pillasters topped by hand carved acanthus leaf capitols. Above the capitols, the pillasters continue up and across the top of the piece framing a beautiful, concavely recessed frieze with large flame mahogany panels.

The fireplace opening is stepped forward beneath the frieze creating an ample central shelf which is edged with ebonised stringing. The fireplace opening has a finely moulded edge with mitred fiddleback pattern around it and a delicate rib of half-round beading.

The generous 7inch rebate will accomodate the vast majority of fireplace inserts and would particularly suit one such as the Stanshall fireplace insert.

Condition: EXCELLENT

Sizes

Overall Width 65 inches ( 165.1 cm )
Overall Height 78 inches ( 198.12 cm )
Opening Height 42 inches ( 106.68 cm )
Opening Width 43.5 inches ( 110.49 cm )
Body Width 64 inches ( 162.56 cm )
Central Shelf Width 54 inches ( 137.16 cm )
Central Shelf Depth 6.5 inches ( 16.51 cm )
Depth 8 inches ( 20.32 cm )
Rebate 7 inches ( 17.78 cm )

1930s Oak Mantel with recessed frieze

A 1930s oak mantel with a lowered central frieze section.

The frieze is doubly stepped down and back from the top of the plain legs.

A band of zig-zag decoration with a central diamond is the sole ornamentation.

The plain simple geometry of this mantel is typical of its era allowing the beauty of the medullary ray figuring in the wood to show through. (Medullary rays are radial sheets or ribbons extending vertically through the tree across and perpendicular to the growth rings. Also called pith rays or wood rays, these formations of primarily parenchyma cells allow the radial transmission of sap. In quartersawn material, where the wood is cut into boards with the growth rings roughly perpendicular to the face of the board, the medullary rays often produce beautiful figure such as silver grain, medullary spots and pith flecks)

Condition: VERY GOOD

Overall Width 49.5 inches ( 125.73 cm )
Overall Height 50 inches ( 127 cm )
Opening Height 39.75 inches ( 100.965 cm )
Opening Width 39.75 inches ( 100.965 cm )
Body Width inches ( 0 cm )
Depth 5 inches ( 12.7 cm )
Rebate 3.25 inches ( 8.255 cm )

1930s Oak Mantel

An Arts and Crafts inspired mantel from the 1930s. The frieze has an intricately hand carved panel above which the caddy top is framed with cock beading.

The fireplace opening is framed with a double string moulding with diamond "stud" motifs rising from block feet

Condition: EXCELLENT

Overall Width 52.5 inches ( 133.35 cm )
Body Width 51 inches ( 129.54 cm )
Overall Height 53.5 inches ( 135.89 cm )

Opening Height 39 inches ( 99.06 cm )
Opening Width 39 inches ( 99.06 cm )

Depth 7 inches ( 17.78 cm )
Rebate 6 inches ( 15.24 cm )

Hearth Cut Out Width 40 inches ( 101.6 cm )
Hearth Cut Out Height 4 inches ( 10.16 cm )

1930s Arts & Crafts Style Mantel

A 1930s fireplace mantel with a bowed frieze that has been fully restored to reveal the beautiful grain of the mahogany.

The design is simple with block feet, plain legs and a bowed frieze bordered by greek key patterning with carved flowers at the corners.

Overall Width 52 inches ( 132.08 cm )
Overall Height 54 inches ( 137.16 cm )
Opening Height 40 inches ( 101.6 cm )
Opening Width 41.5 inches ( 105.41 cm )
Depth 6 inches ( 15.24 cm )
Rebate 3 inches ( 7.62 cm )

Condition: EXCELLENT

£ 695

1930s Mahogany Mantel

A late 1920's mantel in Mahogany with ebonised mouldings to the legs and ebonised caddy top.

The central section of the mantel is stepped both forward and upward from the outer legs and features moulding around the opening.

It has a two tier ebonised top and a raised, diagonally quartered, book matched mahogany panel.

Body width 58 inches (147cm)
Height 60 inches (1152cm)
Shelf depth 6 inches (15cm)
Central shelf width 46 inches

Opening width 41.5 inches (106cm)
Opening height 39.5 inches (101cm)
Rebate 5 inches (12.5cm)

Condition: VERY GOOD

1920s Mantel in Mahogany and Walnut

A stepped and boxed framework mantel in mahogany is typical of the 1920's pieces made by the firm of Balfours in Beith, the dominant mantelpiece manufacturers in Scotland for many years.

This piece (design # 10017) displays the fine design and craftsmanship which gained the firm its reputation and features book matched, burr walnut panels in the legs and central frieze section.

Sizes

Body width 59 inches (150cm)
Height 54 inches (137cm)
Shelf depth 6.5 inches (17cm)

Opening width 41.5 inches (106cm)
Opening height 39.5 inches (101cm)
Rebate 4 inches (10cm)

Condition: GOOD

Late 1920s Mahogany Mantle

An imposing, angular design with geometric banding to the top.

The upper tier has two flat panels around a central concave panel in fiddle back veneer. They are topped with interlocking applied beading rising to a central chamfered pinnacle.

The bottom section in straight grained mahogany has chamfered sides which sweeps down onto solid block feet. The feet have been cut to accomodate a 48 inch wide hearth at a thickness of 2 inches.

The fireplace opening has substantial moulding running around it.

Condition: EXCELLENT

Sizes

Body width 60.25 inches (153cm)
Height 68 inches (172cm)
Shelf width 53 inches (135cm)
Shelf depth (max) 5 inches (13cm)

Opening width 41.5 inches (106cm)
Opening height 40 inches (102cm)
Rebate 5 inches (13cm)

1920s Walnut Mantel

A beautiful Walnut mantel from the mid to late 1920's. The central block of the frieze is in Burr Walnut with a hand carved pattern of leaves and flowers that blends to the moulding around the fireplace opening.

All the individual pieces of wood feature a radiused edge from the block feet, the legs with additional outside blocks, rounded shoulders and central raised frieze block.

Condition: EXCELLENT

Sizes

Body Width 55 inches (140cm)
Height 48 inches (122cm)
Shelf Depth 6.5 inches (16cm)

Opening Width 41 inches (104cm)
Opening Height 39.75 inches (101cm)
Rebate 5 inches (12.5cm)

1930s Mahogany Mantel

A simple art deco bowed frieze design lightened with a range of ornamentation.

The top and bottom of the frieze are trimmed with a greek key pattern, the two sides with finely grooved work and the two bottom corners with carved daisy flowers.

The whole of the bowed section is supported by a double bracket

Sizes

Body width 52.5 inches (133cm)
Height 54 inches (137cm)
Shelf depth 6 inches (15cm)

opening

Opening width 41.5 inches (106cm)
Opening height 39.5 inches (101cm)
Rebate 3 inches (7cm)

Condition: EXCELLENT

1920s Oak Mantel

A 1920s Oak mantel with a caddy top It has a recessed frieze with basket weave beading with flowers across the top. The centre of the mantel has hand carved sunburst with a flower. The mantel comes with block feet that extend around the outside.

Body width 52" (132 cm)
Height 55" ( 139.75 cm)
Shelf depth 4.5" ( 11 cm)

opening
39.5" wide x ( 100 cm)
39.75" high ( 100 cm)
Rebate 3.5" ( 9 cm)

Condition: EXCELLENT

1930s Oak Mantel

A 1932 oak bow fronted mantel
with interlocking circular banding to the
top and bottom of the frieze which is
supported by a singular central bracket.
The opening is subtly chamfered and
finished with two small block feet.

49" (125cm) wide
52" (132 cm) high

opening
39.5" (100cm) wide
37.5" (95 cm) high

Maximum Depth at centre
8" (20 cm)

3" (7.5cm) Rebate

Condition: VERY GOOD

1920s Mantel

A 1920s mahogany mantelpiece of unusual construction with a wavy frieze mirroring the shape of the contoured shelf. The tall slender legs are finely moulded to the inside opening and end in block feet. Above the lower shelf is a solid panel of mahogany capped off with a shapely cornice.

55" wide x 68 " high
40" wide x 41.5 " high opening

rebate 4.75

8.5" depth total
7" shelf depth

Condition: EXCELLENT

1920s Oak Chimney Piece

A fine oak mantel with a generously bowed
and vertically veneered frieze that steps
back to the legs. It has a caddy style flush
mantel which is faced with a greek key
decorated border along the top. The bottom
of the frieze is finished with a border of
petals and there is fine moulding around
the fireplace opening which finished with
the block feet

49" wide x 52" high
38.5" wide x 39.5 " high opening

Rebate 2.5"

Condition: VERY GOOD

1920s Oak Mantel

A flat topped oak mantel with shallow
drop shoulders. The cross banded frieze
panel is quartered with parquetry detailing.
The quality and crosscut nature of the
panel is outstanding. The legs finish in
solid block feet with detail moulding above,
which runs up and around the inside
opening (needs minor repairs to finish)

59" wide x 54" high
39.5" wide x 41" high opening

Depth 7"

Condition: GOOD

Late 1920s Mahogany Mantel

An imposing and unusual 1920s angular mahogany
mantel from a house in Heald Green, Stockport.

The upper tier has two flat panels around a central
concave panel in fiddle back veneer. They are topped
with interlocking applied beading rising to a central
chamfered pinnacle. The bottom section in straight
grained mahogany has chamfered sides which sweeps
down onto solid block feet. The fireplace opening has
substantial moulding running around it.

55" wide x 68" high
40.5" wide x 40.5" high opening
(37.5"high at the edge of the opening)

4.5" rebate

Condition: EXCELLENT

1920s Oak Mantel

A 1920s caddy top mantel in oak with very plain legs
with no feet. It has a recessed frieze with blind fret
centre detail and a plain shelf that extends just
beyond the recessed panel

49.5" wide x 54" high
39.5" wide x 39.5 " high opening

5" deep including shelf

3.5" rebate

Condition: EXCELLENT

1920s Oak Fireplace Mantel

An magnificent oak Fireplace Mantel with
bollection moulding and eleven
large brackets supporting the
pelmet type upper section.
A solidly designed and
impressive Fireplace Mantelpiece

60" wide x 55" high
41.5" wide x 39.5" high opening
7" depth

2.5" rebate

Condition: EXCELLENT

1920s Mahogany Fireplace Mantel

A finely figured mahogany Fireplace Mantel with delicate fluted
mouldings ending in roundels. It has celtic style banding
around the frieze. It has a caddy style top with minimal
overhang and the long straight undershelf with more intricate
banding is supported by three brackets.

This Fireplace Mantel was removed from a 1920s semi detached
house in Wilmslow and had an original tiled back panel
and flush tiled hearth.

52" wide x 70" high
41.5" x 39.5" opening
3" rebate

Condition: EXCELLENT

Adams Style Pine Fireplace Mantel

An Adams style pine Fireplace Mantel with elongated
brackets which run into the body down to moulded
block feet. It has a nicely moulded mantel and
Dentil decoration above and below the frieze.
The classical decoration is carved wood. The Fireplace Mantel
would probably go well with an arched Fireplace insert
and a black tiled hearth.

56" wide x 58" high
36" x 36" opening

Condition: EXCELLENT

1930s Walnut Fireplace Mantel

An unusual walnut Fireplace Mantel from the early 1930s.
It has a hand carved frieze with flowing ivy leaf
design on drop shoulder block. There is
continuous moulding around the daylight opening
ending in chamfered foot blocks

51" wide x 52" high
37.5" x 40" opening

Condition: EXCELLENT

1920s Fireplace Mantel

A mahogany Fireplace Mantel from the late 1920s
with a drop frieze, moulded square shelf
and bevelled castellation. It has bolection
moulding around the daylight opening and
chamfered block feet..

53" wide x 56" high
39.5" x 39.5" opening

Condition: EXCELLENT

£ 795

1920s Mahogany Fireplace Mantel

A mahogany Fireplace Mantel from the late 1920s
of unusual design. It has a fluted concave frieze
and a deep bowed shelf. There is carved wave
detail to the top of the legs. The face to the
legs is concave above the squarte clock feet.

53" wide x 52" high
41.5" x 40.5" opening

Condition: EXCELLENT

Oak Fireplace Mantel

An Oak Fireplace Mantel with chevron finger detail to
the feet and top of the legs and a small
caddy top. The frieze contains unusual
clothes drying arms on either side

49" wide x 49.75" high
39" x 39.5" opening

Condition: GOOD

Pine and Gesso Fireplace Mantel

A Pine and Gesso Fireplace Mantel dated 1906 with rope twist
and Sheraton style swags and bows.
It has a demilune shelf with elongated brackets

50" wide x 51" high
39.5" x 39.5" opening

Condition: EXCELLENT

1920s Mahogany Fireplace Mantel

A mahogany Fireplace Mantel with a deeply dropped
central shelf flanked by solid shoulders
surmounted by moulded capitals.
The hemispherical back panel adds a curve
and moulding around the daylight opening
ends a feet blocks..

52" wide x 54" high
40" x 39.5" opening

Condition: EXCELLENT

Mahogany Fireplace Mantel

A shallow bolection mouldedFireplace Mantel
in mahogany with block feet..

64" wide x 51" high
48" x 42.5" opening

Condition: EXCELLENT

1920s Cast Iron Fireplace Mantel

A 1920s cast iron Fireplace Mantel originally from a kitchen range.
Newly re- enamelled in pewter

48" wide x 50" high

38" x 38" opening

Condition: EXCELLENT

Jacobean Style Fireplace Mantel in Oak

An enormous solid oak Jacobean style Fireplace Mantelpiece

56" wide x 88" high

37" x 39" opening

Condition: VERY GOOD

1920s Mahogany Fireplace Mantel

A fiddleback mahogany Fireplace Mantel with
cross banding in coramandle (a rare veneer)
and boxwood stringing

55" wide x 54" high
41" x 40" opening

Condition: GOOD

Original Oak Pre-War Fireplace Mantel

53.5" wide x 55.25" high
41" x 40" opening
5"rebate

Condition: GOOD

Fully Restored

Altered 1920s Oak Fireplace Mantel

51" wide x 44" high
39" x 33.75" opening

Condition: GOOD

Substantial Castellated
30s Oak Fireplace Mantel

59" wide x 56.25" high
41.5" x 39.5" opening

Condition: VERY GOOD

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