Antique Stands and Racks
The term antique stand is used in a wide of items and means any kind of support or can be used for a piece joined to another item of furniture, such as a cabinet stand. Antique cabinet stands were designed to be both practical and easily portable. They were often decorated with fashionable carving or inlay and they were always functional.
Antique Folio and Reading Stands
The antique folio stand allowed the reader to store a heavy book and folio stands were usually adjustable, often with a hinged action, to allow for different thicknesses of books. Some antique reading stands were intended to hold music scores whilst others were more solidly constructed to take a heavy book. Like folio stands, reading stands could be adjusted so that the reader was able to place the book at different heights and angles. They were usually placed in there Library with there antique library furniture.
