Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 464
oxescomes under a later period, but itmay answer some question to saythat the quaint paper on bandboxes was put on them to matchthe rooms in which they were keptfor guests. Thus, whenever theroom was repapered the band-boxhad another layer added, and wasthus kept fresh. A box like thathere shown… … in the early days. There was much movia new country, and the desire to talce up 1in such cases auctions were frequent. Sodistrict remained there unless it could go by Below is a stand with a largepewter pitcher. They are the prop-erty of Mr. B. A. Behrend. It issmall in the frame, but like…
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