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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 1556478, member: 5066&quot;]Here is what the MET says about their slate top table.</p><p><br /></p><p>Slate Tabletop Switzerland C 1720</p><p><i>Most Furniture used in Colonial America was made here, although occasionally English pieces were imported, so it is unusual and interesting to come across a small group of slate topped tables whose bases were made in America, but whose elaborate slate &amp; inlaid wood tops&nbsp; seem to have come from Switzerland.</i></p><p><i>It has been suggested that the tabletops were imported as a group by some enterprising merchant to whom they were shipped via the Rhine to Rotterdam and then to New England.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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