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 434
number ofhigh-priced clocks inventoried in the early years ofthe eighteenth century. They were, however, notvalued as high as £10. The prices from 1700 to1712, before the currency began to depreciate,ranged from nine up to twelve pounds. After thisthey rose to ^20 in 1721 ; to ^35 in 1732 ; to £\o… … Fig. 106A HEPPELWHITE CARD TABLE CLOCKS 243 so that the silver value of none of these high-pricedclocks, except the last, reached as high as ^20. Itis, therefore, reasonable to suppose that the clockswhich we have cited from the inventories of SirWilliam Phips and Mr. Mackman were placed at toohigh…
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