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 62
tohave been built considerably more than a centuryago. The color of the American white oak, theQuercus alba, is, as a rule, several shades lighter thanthe European oak. This color test, however, is notalways available, as some specimens of European oakare much lighter than others, and the wood of… … Fig. 9CARVED OAKEN CHEST WITH TWO DRAWERS 1680-1 700 CHESTS * 27 as the wood of the American black walnut, we donot hesitate to pronounce it European. In doubt-ful cases the presence of pine, or of more than onedrawer, would speak in favor of American origin. The following items show that plates,…
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