The colonial furniture of New England : A study of the domestic furniture in use in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1892)
Lyon, Irving Whitall, 1840-1896 · Boston, New York : Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 344
tthey continued to be used by English people wellinto the eighteenth century is proved by the table-boards that we have cited from the New Englandrecords. A table-board, we are now prepared to explain,was no more nor less than the top of a table which,when brought out and placed upon trestles or… … Fig. 78 CHIPPENDALE CHAIR Second half eighteenth century TABLES 193 they were sometimes used in New England is shownby the following extract from the inventory of RobertWing, of Boston, made in 1651, namely, To tablesand trestles and fair benches, 5 s. The table-boards of our New England…
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