The chap in the photograph below, sporting a magnificent walrus moustache, was my great-great-grandfather. I don’t know exactly when he was born or when he died, but I do know that he worked as a cabinet maker in London and later in Plymouth during the second half of the 19th century.
Several pieces that he made are still in the family and among them is this decorative wall bracket. I’m not sure what it was meant for – probably a small clock or an ornament.
Quite apart from the pleasure of owning something made by a woodworking ancestor four generations earlier, I’ve always liked the bracket for its nicely judged proportions.
And I admire his neat solution to the problem of bringing everything to a point at the bottom of the bracket.
Needing a table for a narrow hallway a few years ago, I borrowed his design for a larger version in walnut.
Click on the thumbnails below if you’d like to see larger pictures.
Finely Strung 
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How cool! Excellent extrapolation on the piece you built. It looks to be suspended independently in space. Very pleasing contours.