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 183
Collection of Mrs. Watson Maple eighteenth-century chairpicked up in Cambridge, Mass.The splat is interestingly turned,and the base shows the earlierJacobean influence. … From the author^s collection. Maple chair of the second half of the eighteenth century. Originally fromNewburyport, but bought in Boston for $12 COLLECTORS LUCK LN THE CITY 163 the sofa. It was a lovely piece, better even than thechairs, she tells me; she could have bought it forsixty-five dollars,…
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