Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 38
or three instances a full name, appears. Sometimes a Hadley is locked by passing a flat bar vertically down througha slot, just inside where the scutcheons would otherwise appear. The topis then locked, and all drawers are secure. The making of a good early lock was no small part of the labor of… … A ONE-DRAWER Hadley Chest. Date 1690-1700. The variationsbetween this chest and that on page 17, are to be marked, as indicatingthat the designer, while following in general the style of carving peculiarto the Hadley chest, did not confine himself to slavish copying. For in-stance, a grotesque head…
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