Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 392
ractice in this respect varied. Sometimes the foot was carved from thesolid wood on the post. More often the toes were glued on. One shouldbeware of being hoaxed by a new carving on a foot not designed as a Spanishfoot. The failure to project beyond the line of the leg is a plain indicationof the… … A SMALL Gate-leg Table belonging to Mr. G. Winthrop Brown. It hasa drawer, and the tongued and grooved leaf joint. Little tables like this are very much desired, as they are not only beauti-ful, but adapt themselves readily as occasional tables. The frame of a gate-leg sometimes, as in this case,…
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