Is this a Johannes Andersen table?

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metriccar

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18/12/2015 6:09 pm

The owner is asking a good deal of money for this table, but it is unmarked. It looks similar to other tables I have seen by him, but the way the leafs come out is different. Beautiful table, but I'd worry about overpaying because someone started making tables similar to his that didn't label them.
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leif ericson - Zephyr Renner

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18/12/2015 6:17 pm

Some bigger photos of the pull out leaves would help...

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teakhound

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18/12/2015 11:15 pm

Looks like Niels Moller for JL Moller Mobelfabrik to me.

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19/12/2015 1:06 am

Good eye, teakhound. Signed example in this link:
http://www.tias.com/5002/PictPage/1922689394.html

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leif ericson - Zephyr Renner

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19/12/2015 2:41 am

It is quite often that various Møller dining tables and coffee tables are credited to Johannes Andersen, without identifying a maker. They have a strong Johannes Andersen look.
And Møller was really not good about marking the wares in the 50s, and going by the two catalogs I have, they had stopped making a lot of the tables by the mid-60s, and this is about when Møller got more reliable about marking product. So many Møller tables are unmarked.

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metriccar

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19/12/2015 2:53 am

Thank you very much! The same seller sold some Moller #75 chairs earlier, so this does make sense.

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cdsilva

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19/12/2015 3:38 am

Exhibit #2 for leif's comment about similarity; although the Møller version was designed before the Andersen Smile.

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leif ericson - Zephyr Renner

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19/12/2015 5:24 am

I should do a post on here showing the various Møller tables, and after each the Johannes Andersen table. It is eery. I am not sure what it means. (To give credit where it is due, I believe tchp first pointed out this parallelism).

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