AHHH, I think I now know which tables you mean, but those weren't farm tables, the best of them are patent furniture, and many are the ephemeral "until we can do better" make do pieces that through the accidents of history (careful owners mostly, and people that didn't move frequently) survived.
A farm table as I think of it has the structure to take large game. They often are built with solid rails connected with corner braces and four legs and the top supported by this structure. They also include trestle tables.
You're having the problem that savage antiques don't have many of the drop-leaf tables and other converting furniture that were the permanent solutions for the problem of intermittent more people. Case goods were produced in quantity by factories, and they have more 'taste' markers so they get shed.
Maybe not congeal, but he'd wonder why such a nice young miss was showing him something so blue he's expecting the Mob to swarm in.
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Date: 2014-01-20 02:54 pm (UTC)A farm table as I think of it has the structure to take large game. They often are built with solid rails connected with corner braces and four legs and the top supported by this structure. They also include trestle tables.
You're having the problem that savage antiques don't have many of the drop-leaf tables and other converting furniture that were the permanent solutions for the problem of intermittent more people. Case goods were produced in quantity by factories, and they have more 'taste' markers so they get shed.
Maybe not congeal, but he'd wonder why such a nice young miss was showing him something so blue he's expecting the Mob to swarm in.