Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 134
el. The point of merit in this piece is the solidity of the frame and thestyle of the middle and end stretchers. What seems a defect is the fact that the pulls on which the drawer restswhen open are faced with a thin strip to form a lip all about the pull.The wood is walnut and the dimensions are… … A LITTLE sturdy desk of pine, in the Rhode Island School of Design.The very heavy lid with its excellent thumb-nail molding, the heavy dove-tailing, the flush drawer, the heavy turning, bespeak a date inside theSeventeenth Century, probably 1680-1700. The lid suggests a chest top.It is the chagrin…
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