Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 371
was thefirst object they recognized, after their mothers. It taught them theirfirst lesson in self-restraint. Every day till senility claimed them theygazed into the blaze. Fire was the precious, first focus of civilization. In the evenings the romantic sense was called out by the fire. Thesagas of… … A BRACKET Refectory Table, with Drops. Owner: Mrs. John Mar-shall Holcombe. This remarkbly fine example was used in the Grant family,of East Windsor Hill, Connecticut, as a dining table, before 1700. Date:16501670. It was possibly the property of the settler, Mathew Grant, whowas a surveyor, and…
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