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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 5621531, member: 6444&quot;]Short version is that there were three English cabinet makers who also published books of furniture designs in the late 1700s, Chippendale, Hepplewhite, and Sheraton. Original furniture from any of these cabinet makers is extremely rare and valuable - and made and found in England. But their names are also given to furniture made based on their style books. These designs also became popular in the US, but here their designs were Americanized and simplified, and it took some time for the fashions to come to the US from England after the books were published (Hepplewhite in 1788).</p><p><br /></p><p>It would be correct to call your table Hepplewhite style or Federal style (the US term that is more in use these days). That said, the reason your table is early to mid 1800’s and not before, is mainly the serpentine shape of the top, not used on earlier tables.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can’t see wood grain enough to see whether quartersawn, but quartersawing mahogany mostly just gives straight even grain (not like quartersawn oak). It also looks like the table top has been badly stained (embedded rust?) which may be why it was refinished in an attempt to remove stains.</p><p><br /></p><p>p.s. Pembroke table refers to the size and drop leaves, and Pembroke tables can be in designs of any of the designers named.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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