Inside Out Library · Explore

Furniture of the olden time (1902)

Morse, Frances Clary · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 136

An illustration from Furniture of the olden time, 1902, leaf 136
three squaredrawers in the lowerpart, and the upperpart has two smallsquare drawers forpens, with a third be-tween them. Thetwo pen drawers pullout and support thelid when lowered.The interior of thedesk has eighteen small drawers, shaped and placedso that their fronts form a curve, and each… … lUus. 75. — Cabriole-legged Desk, 1760. Desks i^ Esq., of Norwich, which was made by BenjaminDunham in 1769, and it is possible that the twopieces were made by the same Connecticut cabinet-maker. Another desk belonging to Mr. Hosmer is shownin Illustration 76. The bandy-legs end in a claw-and-ball…

Furniture

Internet Archive · UBC Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from Furniture of the olden time

More like this