OUR BEGINNINGS

Our great-grandfather was a furniture turner, learning his trade in the late 1800s and operating in the United Kingdom in the early 1900s. 

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He would have started his career using a furniture turning table such as the one pictured.

Image source: page 125 of "The young mechanic; containing directions for the use of all kinds of tools, and for the construction of steam engines and mechanical models, including the art of turning in wood and metal" (1882)