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 209
Collection of Dr. Coburn. Old hand-wrought iron andirons, and acorn tops, sometimescalled lemon tops. … Collection of Dr. Coburn. Eighteenth-century brass andirons. THE FRIENDLY FIREPLACE 189 as well as I do, even if he has nt any andirons tomatch, and warms himself just by a commonplacestove. Still, the true collector never despairs. Some connoisseurs insist that andirons should beof wrought iron,…
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