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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 416137, member: 5066&quot;]Many are not aware but what they think is a lowboy (dressing table) is actually a highboy base, how to tell? Dressing tables are much smaller, 30 inches or so tall and narrower as well. Most 18th century highboys came with a matching lowboy, you might say they were America&#039;s first &quot;suite&quot; of furniture.</p><p>As time went along, most highboys got separated from their matching lowboy &amp; some highboys got split to make 2 pieces of furniture from one.</p><p>Here is a bedroom suite at Philly Museum of Art, built by John Head for a German immigrant in 1726, solid walnut, W&amp;M style, Philadelphia</p><p><br /></p><p>Notice how much smaller the dressing table (lowboy) is in proportion to the highboy base.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]145181[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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