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Message:: [QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 3156391, member: 5066"]Well, Yes & No! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/confused.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />"Tavern" table is the name these small tables are known by today and, it's true 18th century taverns used them, they were small, portable and just the right size for holding 1or2 persons meals & drinks.It is also true that virtually all colonial homes had these tables as well and why not?very functional around the house, even today.These tables in taverns were almost exclusively built out of hard Maple with pine tops whereas in homes they were sometimes built with nicer cabinet woods like Cherry or Walnut, also with pine tops.It is almost certain the 1750 cherry/pine table above never saw the inside of a tavern in its life.We don't know what these tables were called in the 18th century but, they were absolutely not called tavern tables.The term "Tavern" table is a late 19th- 20th-century invention, probably meant for marketing them, similar to "bible box" or "Huntboard".[/QUOTE]