Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 306
so could have been used as a stool. There is no possible reasonwhy a high stool should not have done service as a stand just as at the presenttime we often place articles in a chair that more properly, in the view of aprecise housewife, should go on a table. A piece of this sort is so rare thatit… … ON the right is a jointstool from which the feethave been worn off ordisintegrated by decay.While we are on this sub-ject of the feet of piecesof furniture, we may saythat the wear was not asgreat as the decay. Ifthe pieces stood on dampfloors as they often did,or were put into bacl<.rooms, they…
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