Morse, Frances Clary · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 162
oks, inthis desk is closed with a tambour door. The slidewhich shows above the compartment pulls out, witha mechanism described by Sheraton, and when fully 138 Furniture of the Olden Time out, it drops to form the cover for the compart-ments. The Empire brasses upon the top are original,but the… … Illustration 93 shows a bureau and desk, belong-ing to Mrs. J. H. Henry of Winchendon. Thelid of the desk turns back like the lid of a piano.The carved pillars at the side are like the ones uponthe bureau in Illustration 37, and upon other piecesof furniture of the same date, about 1820. CHAPTER VI
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