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The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history (1910)

Foley, Edwin · London : T.C. and E.C. Jack · leaf 122

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sting on account of its associations, isthe table herewith shown, at which Moll Pitcher,the famous fortune-teller of Lynn, sat when re-ceiving credulous skippers and other clients, whoMOLL PITCHERS TABLE, would uot Sail wlthout her favourable prognostica-U.8.A. tions. The butterfly table is almost… … BEDSTEADS Owing probably to the destruction wrought by the war of theRevolution and the Civil War, no indisputable seventeenth-centuryEnglish-Colonial bedsteads appearto exist in the States—a some-what serious loss to the Americanstudent of decorative furniture.In the absence of actual pieces,one…

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