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How to collect old furniture (1906)

Litchfield, Frederick · London : G. Bell and Sons · leaf 100

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EW be Ince and Mayhew, with the address givenas above, and while Sheraton in criticising theirbook of designs should write of the firm as itis here named, yet in the old London Directoriesof 1791-1795, and also in the list of master cabinetmakers given by Sheraton at the end of his Cabinet… … A BEDROOM TABLE, BY INCE AND MAYHEW those of Chippendale, but have more of the fret-cut ornament than we find in the drawings of thelatter. Indeed, although this fret-cut work hasbeen so commonly identified with Chippendalethere is remarkably little of it in his book. 79 HOW TO COLLECT OLD…

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