The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods (1914)
Eberlein, Harold Donaldson, McClure, Abbot, 1879- · Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott Company · leaf 428
MAHOGANY SECRETARY OR BUREAU BOOKCASE. AMERICAN, LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY By Courtesy of Richard A. Canfield, Esq., New York City PLATE XLIV OTHER AMERICAN FURNITURE 309 ture was made of this same walnut by Philadelphiacabinet-makers. At the same time, while the walnut was enjoyingsuch general… … Fia. 2. American Mirror, of Late Eighteenth Century.By Courtesy of Col. W. J. Youngs, Garden City, L. I. some ten years before the date, 1720, somewhat arbi-trarily assigned, for its use as a carcase, cabinet orchair wood in England, it was being used by Philadel-phia joiners. By the middle of the…
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