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Rh  in this period in the Shenandoah Valley. On account of this table having a slate top, it is thought to have been used for mixing purposes, presumably for liquor, although there is no partitioning for bottles. (Property of Charles Watkins).

PLATE XIX. . (Virginia—c. 1800). A finely made sewing table of nicely figured wood, showing a type seldom seen in the South. If fashioned in the South, it was done by one who knew the use of curly maple; and this is likely, as the wood, at the beginning of the nineteenth century had come into demand, due to the importation of Northern products into the South. (Property of W. S. Ahern).

PLATE XIX. . (South Carolina—c. 1800). This Sheraton table was made in the style used by Duncan Phyfe, of New York. The veneering and carving on this table are of the highest quality. The reeding resembles tambour work. The compartments inside the lid, which lifts up, are of satinwood. (Property of Mrs. R. G. Cabell).

PLATE XX. . (North Carolina—c. 1825). This candle stand is of Hepplewhite design, of a popular type, and made later than the period. The stands were made about the same time by Jacob Siewers, who worked in Salem from 1820 to 1850, and employed a number of cabinetmakers in his shop. The owners of the pieces are the granddaughters of Jacob Siewers. (Property of the Misses Pfhol).

PLATE XXI. . (South Carolina—c. 1720-1750). A table that folds, and when closed is about three inches in depth. It is a unique piece with legs rather crudely shaped. (Property of Mrs. Gabriel Cannon).

PLATE XXI. . (c. 1740-1780). Two stands of a type found throughout the South, made over a period of about fifty years.

PLATE XXI. . (c. 1780-1810). A popular type made in the Hepplewhite and Sheraton periods throughout the South.

PLATE XXI. . (South Carolina—c. 1810-1820). An elaborately carved stand with the lion's-paw feet and carved pedestal. (Property of Mrs. Gabriel Cannon).

PLATE XXI. . (Virginia—c. 1730-1750). A type used for breakfast or supper tables, and rarely found in mahogany. (Property of Mrs. G. Edmond Massie).