Morse, Frances Clary · New York, the MacMillan Co. · leaf 165
Illustration 93 shows a bureau and desk, belong-ing to Mrs. J. H. Henry of Winchendon. Thelid of the desk turns back like the lid of a piano.The carved pillars at the side are like the ones uponthe bureau in Illustration 37, and upon other piecesof furniture of the same date, about 1820. CHAPTER VI … C CHAIRS HAIRS are seldom men-tioned in theearliest colo-nial inventories, andfew were in use ineither England orAmerica at that time.Forms and stools wereused for seats in thesixteenth and earlyseventeenth centuries,and inventories of thatperiod, even those ofwealthy men, do notoften contain…
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