![]() ![]() Together with the other documented examples, they testify to a sophisticated regional furniture trade in the burgeoning port around the time of the Revolution. Photograph by Russ Berman and Sue Owrutsky.Ī recently discovered table and chest-on-chest add to a small, but growing group of furniture that we can tie to eighteenth century New Bedford, Massachusetts. ![]() Mahogany birch, maple, eastern white pine. The rounded corners of the leaves most likely date the table to the mid-1780s, around the time Lemuel's brother, Elisha, Jr., purchased a desk. 1: Drop leaf table, attributed to Lemuel Tobey (1749–1820), Bedford Village/New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1775–1790.
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