Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 361
tops five inches wider than that here shown.A piece of pine 48 inches wide is in one of our New England panels. Butapparently no effort was made to find for tables the widest board possible.The trenchers used on such boards, in a simple home, were of wood, as alsothe great bowls. Each man had his… … MORE than half the world eats without tables. Even the early English,from whom most of our furniture styles were derived, brought in a temporarytable for dining, such as that here shown. It was called a trestle board andframe, a table board, a long table, a table and frame, etc. A good manyare…
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