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There is a market for it, see for example:

https://www.thosmoser.com/

Pretty stuff, but pricey.


We generally have a view of the early colonial furniture makers as being
"one-off" craftsmen turning out every piece lovingly ... reality was
"not so much"

https://www.colonialsociety.org/publications/3297/boston-and-its-furnituremakers-1650-1860




Good article - thanks for sharing.
I was impressed by the Fig. 14 card table -
used on a yacht .. and one-thing-leads-to-another ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra%27s_Barge

Dang it ... I gotta get off the computer ! :-)
John T.