Red-painted Folding Table

Red-painted Folding Table, 19th century, X-braced ends pinned with screw at top to I-shaped supports which are nailed to H-shaped support, construction allows for 90 degree rotation of ends so that the base may be stored flat, top edges of X-legs fit flush with the horizontal support, five-board top with breadboard ends marked off on front edge with half- and quarter-yard marks, base painted dark red, top varnished, underside of top inscribed "House No 1" in pencil, ht. 25 3/4, wd. 36, dp. 21 1/8 in. Provenance: Acquired at Canterbury, New Hampshire. Note: Another similar table bore a paper label fragment "Evans Pat'd Mar 2, 1880."