Morse, Frances Clary · New York, the MacMillan Co. · leaf 290
signing. Their bookshave complicated drawings of tables and desks withmechanical devices for transforming the simple-looking piece of furniture into one full of compart- 264 Furniture of the Olden Time ments, drawers, and boxes, with contrivances whichallow surprising combinations to spring out.… … Illus. 224.— Piano, about 1830. of the piano and the cover is a tray divided intocompartments to hold toilet and writing utensils,ink-bottle, sand-sifter, stationery, pins, and sewing-implements, and over the keyboard rests a longtray for similar articles. These trays can be re-moved when the piano…
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