Morse, Frances Clary · New York, the MacMillan Co. · leaf 315
ironsof this style werevery popular im-mediately after the Revolutionary War, mus. 244. — • Hessian Andirons, 1 776. the figures of the hated allies of the British thus receiving thetreatment with flame and ashes that Americans con-sidered the originals to merit, to say nothing ofworse indignities… … 290 Furniture of the Olden Time are mentioned in early inventories. They were lowirons placed between the andirons, to hold shortsticks. As wood grew less plentiful, and as the forestsnear by were cleared away, it was not so easy toobtain the huge backlog and the great pile of sticksto fill the…
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