t in a cupboardfor holding workshop tools, in a sixteenth centurywood engraving. Indeed I think it is quite likelythat the Cape craftsman may have refreshed his 297 OLD CAPE COLONY memory of the gables at home by studying theouthnes of his furniture models. Much of thefurniture is inlaid in ebony,… … ARMOIRE IN stink-wood AND YELLOW-WOOD. influence, and as Frenchmen emigrated throughthe Netherlands into England at exactly thesame date that the refugee Frenchmen emigratedto the Cape, it is not strange that the cabinetmakers in all these places should have workedon similar lines. I have heard of…
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