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Early American craftsmen (1920)

Dyer, Walter A. (Walter Alden), 1878-1943 · New York : The Century Co. · leaf 347

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cut makers. In New York furniture makers became morenumerous after the middle of the century. For themore fashionable trade they used black walnut, wildcherry, curled maple, sweet gum, white cedar, andmahogany. New York imported considerable cedarfrom Bermuda and the Barbadoes and mahoganyfrom the… … At the left, Charles II or Restoration style, with Flemish feet, 1675-1700; center,the second stage, bannister-back with Spanish feet and Restoration features;right, third stage, with spindles rounded on the back. Metropolitan Museum.

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