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 204
h a goodline as our boys at college say. Why I bid on itat all, I dont know, because certainly my theoriesof antique harmony were then in their infancy. Itwas a quick impulse, but it did seem so entrancing tobuy anything for ten cents. He handed it over witha bow and the remark that it was the… … From the authors collection. Old hand-wrought iron andirons; these and the brass beaded shoveland tongs were picked up in Vermont and averaged something underfive dollars. I t w - i i f. T J v
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