Morse, Frances Clary · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 315
ess Flagler, Esq., with a brass fen-der and a pair otsteeple-toppedandirons. Fenderswere used in Englandearlier than in thiscountry, to keep thesticks or coals of firefrom rolling or fly-ing out upon thefloor in front of thefireplace, and to prevent children from getting intothe fire. Their size… … lUus. 24b. — Steeple-topped Andironsand Fender. 1775-1790. 292 Furniture of the Olden Time or mantelpiece, of which Isaac Ware said, in 1750: With us no article in a well-furnished room is soessential. The eve is immediately cast upon it inentering, and the place of sitting down is naturallynear…
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