The 'H. Tibats' hinge, discussed by Peter Thornton in 'A signed hinge', Furniture History, Leeds, 1966, pp. 44-45, is recorded on a number of card-tables with tops wreathed by flowered ribbon-guilloche. Tibats was clearly an important source of iron fittings and was probably based in London or Birmingham and his stamped hinge features for instance on a related Hepplewhite tea-table, with serpentined frame and flowered- guilloche top, sold by the late Thomas Ernest Inman, in these Rooms, 29 November 1979, lot 96. Unusually the 'S' at the end of the word 'Tibats' is stamped in reverse, and this version would appear to be previously unrecorded.
A pair of closely related card-tables with serpentine fronts and shallow friezes, centred by a foliate spray, with similar channelled and tapering legs capped with acanthus sprays and on scrolled feet are illustrated in P. Brown, The Noel Terry Collection of Furniture and Clocks, York, 1987, p. 114.