Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 201
rial, as it splits too easily and in all specimens there is shown a tendencyto chip away at the bottom or elsewhere. Further, it doesnt lend itself todelicate turning as the wood is too coarse in grain. We have to help us in solving this riddle the fact that at first all lumberwas riven. Ash was… … (i83l { I ON the next page is a Brewster chair owned by Mrs. Francis H. Lincolnof Hingham. Its date is 1620-40. There are some records and traditionsregarding this chair which should perhaps lead us to call it a Myles Standishchair. It is said the chair belonged to that doughty Pilgrim father;…
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