Collector's luck; or, A repository of pleasant and profitable discourses descriptive of the household furniture and ornaments of olden time.. (1919)
Carrick, Alice Van Leer, 1875- · Boston, The Atlantic monthly press · leaf 136
iption which, translated,runs, Let the buyer remember. Ah, far-away, dead-and-gone buyer in that distanttime and town! Truly, the bust outlasts the throne,the coin Tiberius. And the Romans used glass, sowe are told by one authority, much more commonlythan we do now, — read Machens Hill of… … Collection of Mrs. Carleton. Early nineteenth-century glass picked up in northern New England.The cruet and decanter are especially niteresting.
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