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 205
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 … From the parlor in Webster Cottage. Old Franklin fire-frame with steeple-top andirons, shovel, and tongs. THE FRIENDLY FIREPLACE 185 quite that use of it, but I do know that with the coverinverted it is the nicest thing in the world to hold aplate of toasted muffins, and keep them warm whilewe are…
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