Bentside spinet, 1769, Made in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, American, Mahogany, mahogany veneer, white oak, 32 3/4 x 79

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Bentside spinet, 1769, Made in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, American, Mahogany, mahogany veneer, white oak, 32 3/4 x 79 3/8 x 30 1/2 in. ( x x cm), Furniture, John Harris (active ca. 1730–69), Spinets were so rarely made in colonial America that in 1769, when this example was finished, the Boston Gazette reported: 'A few days since was shipped for Newport, a very curious Spinnet, being the first ever made in America, the performance of the ingenious Mr

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