The colonial furniture of New England : A study of the domestic furniture in use in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1892)
Lyon, Irving Whitall, 1840-1896 · Boston, New York : Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 212
ks which had preceded it now made its appear-ance. It was called the scrtttoir. We give here,from original sources, notes of a few of the earlierexamples : — In the little Chamber, 1 Scritore & desk, £\o. 6.— Inventory of Antipas Boyes, merchant, Boston,1669. In ye porch Chamber, 1 desk &… … Fig 47SCRUTOIR (AFTER HAVARD)Close of seventeenth century DESKS 117 In the Hung Chamber, A Scrittore, £12. In the Great Chamber, A Scriptore, 50 s.— In-ventory of Benjamin Gibbs, merchant, Boston, 1678. From this time down to about 1710 they areoccasionally met with in the inventories; after…
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