There is, for example, a remarkable pair of small drop-leaf tables produced around 1790 in southeastern Virginia, probably in Norfolk or its immediate environs.
Most boats were also fitted with two small chairs and a small drop-leaf table.
For the first five years the standard layout consisted of opposing settees forward with a drop-leaf table between which formed a dinette or double berth.
While pushing it around, I realised we have no drop-leaf tables in the house.
In the center of the print room is a late eighteenth-century walnut drop-leaf table from Delaware, and around it are two pairs of mahogany Chippendale chairs - one pair American and the other English.
First one drop-leaf and then another could be raised to support relationships among those who gathered around the table.
In the main saloon area there are port and starboard settees with a centerline drop-leaf table followed by a port galley and starboard navigation station.
On the drop-leaf table sits a little lamp from the late '30s whose base is a stylized horse in black ceramic; its triangular, red parchment-like shade has edges laced like a dimestore wallet.