Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 327
lue are ruined by thismeans. The taste for collecting old furniture sometimes becomes edu-cated in advance of the best taste in restoring it. The false taste has oftengone so far as to varnish the interiors of drawers on 17th Century pieces!The sense of wear and use on early furniture is its… … A PINE settle belonging to Mr. Geo. F. Ives. It is 64 inches long. Thearms are 35 inches high, and the back 52 inches high. The seat is 16 inchesdeep, and the height is the same. The candle shown is struck by its spikedbase, into the wood. It is not a part of the settle. Sometimes a settle hada…
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