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 26
tand grooved like some of the later Chippendalechairs, and the drop-leaves, when they are raised,make a surface over three feet square. At each endof the central board is an apron carved in charmingcurves, and yet this valuable piece was so dingy withtime and disuse — it had apparently been… … A dignified Sheraton bureau of the type just merg-ing into the Empire feeling, and showing wonderfulwood-marking. It cost $15. ;n;* An inlaid Heppel-white card-table thatcost $15. Its mahog-any and marquetryare unusually delicate.The Sheffield cake-bas-ket was bid in for $2.
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