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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 164342, member: 25"]A butler's table is just folding legs. The top is the butler's tray, in effect the legs are just a stand for the tray.</p><p><br /></p><p>No permanently fixed top can possibly be a butler's table because the sole function is as a stand for the tray that the butler brings into the dining or withdrawing room with the tea things on it. The legs always fold to a flat item that can be stored discreetly till needed. Calling them tray tables would probably be better since the name is more descriptive, and it is most likely that few of them were used by actual butlers, but were bought for suburban Victorian villas with just a housekeeper or general maid of all work.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 164342, member: 25"]A butler's table is just folding legs. The top is the butler's tray, in effect the legs are just a stand for the tray. No permanently fixed top can possibly be a butler's table because the sole function is as a stand for the tray that the butler brings into the dining or withdrawing room with the tea things on it. The legs always fold to a flat item that can be stored discreetly till needed. Calling them tray tables would probably be better since the name is more descriptive, and it is most likely that few of them were used by actual butlers, but were bought for suburban Victorian villas with just a housekeeper or general maid of all work.[/QUOTE]
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