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 58
England. There are, however, several factsconnected with certain other chests which seem in-consistent with the theory of their European manu-facture. One of these facts has already been brought outin connection with the chest illustrated in Fig. 9,namely, that as many as forty chests made after… … Fig. 8CARVED OAKEN CHEST WITH TWO DRAWERS 1680-1700 CHESTS 2$ chests of the same kind doubtless exist within thesame area, and that a goodly number must also havedisappeared through removals and decay, we caneasily see that the number of these chests, whichhave been in use in Hartford County, must…
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