Morse, Frances Clary · New York, the MacMillan Co. · leaf 87
reat value placed upon them, none havesurvived to show us exactly what was meant by the oak Marlbrough bedstead or the half-headedbedstead in early inventories. About the bedsteadup to 1750 we know only what these inventories tellus, but the inference is that bedsteads similar to thosein England at… … Illus. 42.— Wicker Cradle. 1620. — the bedstead proper, when inventoried separately,being placed at so low a sum that one concludes itmust have been ex-tremely plain. Sev-eral cradles made inthe seventeenth cen-tury are still in exist-ence. Illustration 42shows one which isin Pilgrim Hall,Plymouth,…
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