Morse, Frances Clary · New York, the MacMillan Co. · leaf 36
not made, alas, withthe care and thought for durability which werebestowed upon furniture by the old cabinet-makers. Introduction 9 Heaton says: It appears to require about acentury for the wheel of fashion to make one com-plete revolution. What our great-grandfathersbought and valued (i 750-1790);… … T the HE chest was amost importantpiece of furniturein households ofsixteenth and seven-teenth centuries. It servedas table, seat, or trunk,besides its accepted pur-pose to hold valuables ofvarious kinds. Chests are mentioned inthe earliest colonial inven-tories. Ship chests, boardchests, joined…
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