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 404
ory, agate, tortoise-shell, glass,japanned work, bone, horn, and wood. Six 4 pronged forks are found among the itemsof silverware belonging to the estate of CaptainThomas Gilbert, innholder, of Boston, inventoriedin 1719; and we read in Weedens Economic andSocial History of New England, Boston,… … TABLES 227 are occasionally found in the inventories. The rarityof glasses for drinking purposes may also be inferredfrom the not infrequent mention of such other drink-ing vessels as silver wine cups, pewter wine cups,earthen wine cups, and earthen drinking pots. Cases of bottles and glass cases…
Furniture
Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from [Catalog] / Copeland, Hall & Co. (1883)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-catalogcopelandh00cope-25-30.webp)
