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A FOLDING Trestle-gate Table. Owner: the author. Wood: mahog-
any; this being the only mahogany piece of furniture shown in this book.
We are, by announced design, carrying through the gate-leg tables to
their decline. The style of this table, which came from the South, is early;
it is perhaps an instance of the use of mahogany in 1720-30; The leaf has
the rule joint. So also has the great table in Albany, already mentioned.
That is in walnut. It is impossible to determine when the rule joint came
in but it seems to have been well established by 1750.
When folded the thickness of the table is 64 inches. The top is 35 inches
long and 4234 wide-a very strong oval. It has a fine thumb-nail molding.
The height is 242 inches. The piece has good style with long overhang,
and a large top in proportion to the base.
Mahogany examples are known in the first decade of the i8th Century.

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