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 336
n this con-dition could be used as a bed. Bed settles areoccasionally mentioned in the inventories. In otherinstances the space under the seat was utilized as achest, and sometimes for drawers which slid out andback at the front. This settle was exhibited inPhiladelphia at the Centennial Exposition… … V Fig. 76 AN EASY CHAIREighteenth century CHAPTER VI. TABLES. In lists of the household furniture that belongedto our early settlers we occasionally find table-boardsmentioned. The items, In ye hall, One greattable bord & forme, 14 s.; One short Table bord,2 s., occur in the inventory of Alice…
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