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Chats on cottage and farmhouse furniture (1911)

Hayden, Arthur, 1868-1946, Phillips, Hugh, b. 1886 · Toronto : Bell and Cockburn · leaf 40

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29) are interesting as showing the earlystyles. The upper photograph is of a middle six-teenth-century chest, with Gothic carving and solidwood ends forming feet. This type of chest is madefrom six boards. The hand-forged nails show therough joinery, and the large lock is characteristic ofsuch… … ELIZABETHAN CHAIR. This is of Scandinavian origin, and was known in England before the Roman Conquest, being shown in mediaeval MSS. Such designs survived the Gothic styles. {By the courtesy of Messrs. Phillips, Hitchiu.)

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