Antique Green Marble Fireplace Mantel or Soapstone 1800's

Description

Antique Green Marble or Soapstone Mantle
This mantle came out of a very old 1800s Southern Home in Montgomery Alabama.
It is of a green marble or s stone and in good condition.
Price is for  one mantle  top  ,  2 sides  returns-  no keystone---   (several  mantles like these  are available)
The mantle has been  stored for over 50 years and for  some years outside  in the elements- It would need to be  cleaned  if you want the original color or you may
prefer the  beautiful aged  brown green  patina  from  natural aging.
This mantle is one part of this South
ern Antique collector's possessions-it was once put to practical use in, warming the grand living room where it once stood . Then as the old home was destroyed this collector carefully salvaged the old mantle and stored in for more than half of a century.
The  1960's Newspaper article said.
"Maybe the collector didn’t even remember where it was stored or why he had saved it all those years. Maybe just because he liked it , with no use in mind. But the fact remains that, in depths of the Great Depression when the decorative features of razed residences might be had, at least, for carting them away at most, for a song.
Mantels of this type were popular with upscale 19th Century Architects and were used to grace the mansions they built during the last half of the Century.
This mantel with its old patina that remains to the surface , whether it may have been made in America or imported for a southern residence, it is a handsome mantel. Circa 1875. Handsome fireplace mantel in slate. A wonderful example of 19th century Renaissance Revival/Aesthetic Movement design, done in a soft green stone .
I was told this mantel was green slate  but it could  be  Serpentine, a  stone is used almost exclusively for interior finish and decorations, which is quarried here in the  South. The stone could also  be
Soapstone  which  has its own unique beauty and colors. Soapstone, which on the hardness scale is rated at one, compared to a diamond, which is ten, is nonetheless quite hard.  It is also non-porous so it will not stain, like granite or marble. Whichever the stone , it is a handsome green color and  very old!
The top
is
61 3/4" X 12"
SIDES:
_ 36 1/2 " TALL BY 25 1/4" WIDE
THERE ARE  SEVERAL   IN THIS STYLE_ SOME ARE TALLER  AND WIDER!
LOCAL  PICK UP  --   zip 36104  Montgomery Alabama
it could be shipped if you can arrange a truck Freight.
A GREAT VINTAGE MANTLE.
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