Regency Advertisements: Charles Stewart’s Dining Table

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venience elegance and portability the latter being TO THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY The great inconvenience attending the Construc tion of DINING TABLES have been a just cause of complaint for many years and many attempts have been made to remove them without effect that however is at last accomplished by the in ventor of the PATENT ROTARY AND EX TENDING DINING TABLE constructed so that it cannot be injured by opening and being when folded the most elegant compact and portable Table that has yet been presented to the Public This Table representing when folded an elegant Pier or Card Table is admirably adapted for small rooms and will be found more ornamental and more applicable to various purposes than any now in use when standing open in rooms of larger dimensions it may be extended to suit any party and though only supported by four legs scarcely apparent yet so firm and secure as to support any weight The peculiar advantages of this Table are its con so great as to render it a desirable article to Gentle men in the Army as it may almost instantly be packed in a small space and stowed among their Camp equipage without risk or damage The inventor CHARLES STEWART having obtained his Majesty's Patent respectfully informs the Nobility Gentry and Public that his PATENT ROTARY AND EXTENDING DINING TABLES are sold only at bis Cabinet and Upholstery Manu factory 115 St Martin's lane Charing Cross Lon don he having no connection with any other house in the trade 33

This ad appeared in La Belle Assemblée’s January 1818 issue.  

The image is a Charles Stewart table from 1820 currently for sale: https://www.theoldcinema.co.uk/cuban-mahogany-extending-dining-table-by-charles-stewart-c-1820.html?srsltid=AfmBOoouWsiW1a_eNTuMGV3931m7uUr7ZQPRhynbyTMvCXFkK4DqT1SN

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