Wallace Nutting Windsors : correct Windsor furniture. . Hardware When we began to study this question welearned that there was no collection worth thename of American house hardware. Here atthe Iron Works House we have gathered al! thegood examples we can find of wrought iron usedin construction or for utensils — some threehundred, which we carefully reproduce. Ahandbook of Early American Iron Work,published by us sets forth the subject. Furniture We publish American Windsors (notthis work, but the original antiques illustratedand described). We are trying honestly andcarefully to reproduce th
Wallace Nutting Windsors : correct Windsor furniture. . Hardware When we began to study this question welearned that there was no collection worth thename of American house hardware. Here atthe Iron Works House we have gathered al! thegood examples we can find of wrought iron usedin construction or for utensils — some threehundred, which we carefully reproduce. Ahandbook of Early American Iron Work,published by us sets forth the subject. Furniture We publish American Windsors (notthis work, but the original antiques illustratedand described). We are trying honestly andcarefully to reproduce the best in the best are working on a small volume of 17thCentury American Furniture to show thesimple, rare, or curious pieces in maple, pine which we have come upon in oursearch. See page 25. 32 No. 312No. 312. Northern Early Fan-back, Braced The scat is sharply cut away at the sides. It is somewhat more prim, and narrower in the seatthan Nos. 326 and 327, on pages 38 and 39. Seat 16 inches wide, 17 inches deep; height 41 inches. 33 1. No. 207 No. 204 No. 204. Babys New England High Chair A very exact reproduction, full of fine sentiment and gracious curves and hollows. No. 207. Babys New England Low Windsor It differs from the other only in the legs, with the large chair opposite and any bow-backthe seat being 10 inches high. The high chair side chairs form a tasteful dining-room set. Woods for Furniture Oak is counted the strongest as it is theearliest in use for good furniture such as wehad from the old world. The English oak isdarker, partly through nature, partly throughage. At first Americans worked in oak be-cause they supposed that was the proper thingto do. Mr. Nutting found the only Americanoak high-post bedstead known, which evi-dences that our ancestors soon ceased to work-in that wood. Early oak chests and framedwork of native make are not so rare. Beech was and is much used abroad forWindsors, and for Jacobean and other is very smooth bu
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