English Antique Edwardian Mahogany ‘Envelope’ Game Table – Provenance Adolphus Busch Heirs – Circa 1900

From the estate of heirs to Adolphus Busch and the Brookings family. English, late 19th- early 20th century. The top with four triangular panels opening to baize game surface and chip wells, the apron with a single drawer and raised on square, tapering legs with raised shelf stretcher and ending on spade feet.
20.5″ x 2.5″ square when closed; 29″ x 29″ when open.
This game table belonged to Lee Renfrew Wallace and her husband Mahlon Brookings Wallace III, who lived an extremely happy and luxurious life filled with world travels, safaris, collecting, and philanthropy. From backgrounds in race-horse breeding and championship cattle ranching, the socialite couple paid homage to the St. Louis area community in a variety of ways. He was a great-grandson of beer baron Adolphus Busch. His great-grandmother’s brother was Robert Brookings, founder of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He also was descended from the earliest French colonists of Sainte Genevieve, Missouri.