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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 564748, member: 6444&quot;]I guess you want to keep discussing this, which I&#039;m happy to do. So you found a factory that started using steam power somewhere in the 1840&#039;s. That is not really surprising, and I suggested as much, though I thought the factories (and the steam locomotives to transport the factory goods) were mostly located in New England. But clearly that is not correct and a parochial view on my part, probably due to my living in New England so that is what I see so much of here.</p><p><br /></p><p>What this doesn&#039;t address is your central presumption that all furniture made prior to steam power had pinned joints and that evidence of circular saw cuts is of limited value in dating furniture. I am quite certain that is not the case. I&#039;ll post an example when I am not at work where my internet browsing is constrained.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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