Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 579
of the common use ofthe whale oil lamp. The low ceilings in 17th Century houses where furniture of that period,left to us, was originally used, did not admit of central branches likethe above, except in rare instances. The individual candle branches areabout II inches each, horizontally. The hub is… … THE piece above was just described. Below are, on the ends, two veryrare examples of Betty lamp stands, with the lamps. The Betty lamp wasdesigned to hang, but obviously that was sometimes inconvenient. Thesecond and fifth pieces are candle sticks, the fifth with square base beingvery odd. The fine…
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