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 318
rates. The manufacture of Windsor chairs, which in thiscountry seems to have started in Philadelphia, didnot reach Boston, according to our investigations,till 1786, although Windsor chairs are occasionallymentioned in the records and in the newspapersbefore that date. In 1769 two Windsor chairs… … Fig. 72BANDY-LEGGED CHAIR WITH BALL AND CLAW FEET CHAIRS 179 The following advertisement first appears in TheIndependent Chronicle, of Boston, April 13, 1786,with woodcuts of two Windsor chairs of differentpatterns : — Warranted Green Windsor Chairs, may be had at EbenezerStones Shop, on Moores…
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