Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 320
refers to the nastyFrench polish, as if varnishes had not been known and used for manyhundred years, and as if there were something intrinsically bad about them.Varnish has its place on very old furniture, but not on the class of furnitureshown in this volume. There is a strong presumption that the… … A HANDSOME Spanish foot day-bed, the property of Mr. Martin Gayof Hingham. So far as we have noted this piece is different from others inthat it has no less than four strings of stretchers. The two lower sets ofstretchers, it will be noted, are totally lacking from all the other pieceswhich we have…
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