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Antique of the Week: Vanity Dressing Table

The Red Collection in downtown Riverhead is offering a vanity with mirror for $66.50.

  in downtown Riverhead is offering a vintage vanity with mirror. The vanity was originally priced at $95 but is now being sold for $66.50.

The vanity features drawers on either side with a drop center. The drawers offer storage while the top of each side offers places for picture frames and other decorative items.

The drop center separates this vanity from other more modern vanities that often just have a table with a chair.

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The website Dressing Table Head Quarters offers some insight into the history of vanities. The mirrored vanity offered at The Red Collection is similar to the one this history describes as popular in the 1930's.

"A specific design which gained worldwide prominence during the 1930s was the Waterfall Furniture Collection which is specifically designed with smooth and round edges and its tables has large and round mirrors," the website says.

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For more information on this vanity, visit The Red Collection.

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