Is this a Brunswick table?

[Mr. Bond]

Is it possible they made everything but the rails and sourced those from Brunswick and slapped their nameplate on?

If they in fact never produced their own tables, but still sold new tables as a dealer would, Schaaf would have bought whole 'generic' tables (not just the rails) from someone like Brunswick or Passow and labeled them as their own.

But, in this case, the table far outdates the nameplate. This tells us that Schaaf simply worked on, and possible even flipped this table at some point in time (after 1929), but it would have been sold originally as a Brunswick.

 

[Mr. Bond]

From what I have read it seems my table was likely in a commercial setting and Schaaf was contracted to maintain it. They would change the logo to get advertising.

exactly.

you buy a table from brunswick, but then your cushions get hard and there is a beer stain on the cloth...so you call the local table shop for service...

service man pulls your original nameplate off and replaces it with one from his company (or parent company) and voila! your brunswick table becomes a Schaaf table. (so to speak) happened all the time, in every city.

some table service companies even had nameplates made that were the exact same size and shape as brunswick plates just so that switching them would be that much easier.