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manufacturers of wooden table slides was J.F. Snyder of Dayton, OH
COMMON SENSE in business from 1874 to 1894. He had a patented table slide in 1876,
patent number 176,816. Another was Walter of Wabash (B. Walter &
ANTIQUES Co. of Wabash, IN) which was established in the mid to late 1880s.
The other major manufacturer was the Watertown Table-Slide Co. of

By Fred Taylor Watertown, WI, established in 1889. These latter two makers provided
a great deal of the entire market in wooden table slides from the late
19th century to the mid-20th century. But that doesn’t mean that wooden
SLIDING INTO HISTORY slides were not in use before that.
An example from the 1840s can be found in the book “Field Guide
Early Extension Tables to American Antique Furniture” by Butler, Henry Holt. It is a New York

Gothic Revival dining table with a center leg, c.1840, and a dealer in
Southampton, Mass recently had a Renaissance Revival style table with
A reader recently sent me some photos of a Victorian period table. wooden slides which he dated as 1860. That is a very early date for the
At first glance it looked like a typical “turtle top” parlor or lamp table style, but he is still in the ballpark and well before the 1880s.
with a wooden top. Closer inspection revealed it to be an extension table While wooden table slides may seem to be an intuitive concept
that opened to nearly now that we see them,
ten feet using wooden why did it take until
interlocking table slides. the middle of the 19th
The reader asked me to century to be able to
confirm his date of 1840- figure out how to extend
1860. The style said yes. a table? It didn’t.
The form said yes. The
slides said maybe. The idea of a
stationary dedicated
Interlocking parallel eating surface is a
wooden table slides relatively recent concept.
did not show up on The Romans mostly
a regular basis until never bothered with the
the 1870s. One of the idea.
earliest commercial This is an early Rococo Revival style extension table, circa 1850, with wooden
extension slides that opens to ten feet. (John Maeder photo) Continued >>

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