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 84
proverbial British desire for weight,staunchness and durability. Walnut, used only sparingly as a precious woodin Elizabethan and early Jacobean times, came intocommon use for furniture about 1650 and from thenceonward was increasingly popular. Great numbers ofwalnut trees had been planted about… … GRIXLIXG GIBBON MIRROR FRAME By Courtesy of Richard A. Canfield, Esq., New York City PLATE II JACOBEAN PERIOD 51 Cedak came into use about 1660. The most beau-tiful cedar furniture and the most frequently metwith is of Bermudian origin. The Bermuda cedar isof peculiarly rich and dark colour. Cherry…
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