Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 365
the very high tables might have been for do-mestic use, with high chairs, is hardly allowable. If the fashion was forhigh tables in the earliest period, why are not the trestles high? Refectorytables are not known by that name in the old inventories. Long, standing,joined, were the terms used. The… … AN American Oak Refectory Table. Length, originally about 92 inches;now about 86 inches, owing to the loss of the end cleats, the dowel holes ofwhich are. to be seen. Width 30 inches, all of one pine plank, originally,which has now split into three parts. Frame, about 26 by 72 inches. Hight,about…
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