A history of oak furniture . date(during the first quarter of the seventeenth century) which is incised uponthe top transom has been challenged as an addition made by an ownersubsequent to the time when the chest was made, but careful examinationdiscovers a thinness of the uprights and certain peculiarities in costumewhich undoubtedly place this particular article as belonging to the datewhich appears on it. Ergo, a countryside piece exhibiting lingering tradi-tions, and behind the times as regards style. Such curious discrepancies are at first sight rather puzzling, but they belong toa distin
A history of oak furniture . date(during the first quarter of the seventeenth century) which is incised uponthe top transom has been challenged as an addition made by an ownersubsequent to the time when the chest was made, but careful examinationdiscovers a thinness of the uprights and certain peculiarities in costumewhich undoubtedly place this particular article as belonging to the datewhich appears on it. Ergo, a countryside piece exhibiting lingering tradi-tions, and behind the times as regards style. Such curious discrepancies are at first sight rather puzzling, but they belong toa distinctly different class to the anachronisms perpetrated by many modern carvers,and their discovery leaves no shadow of doubt on the veritable piece which exhibitsthem. A few of the pitfalls for the unwary have been touched upon here, but forthose who run and read as well, the acquirement of antique oak is a pursuit whichincreases in ardent interest as the quarry grows scarcer. FRED , Stanford Road, Kensington Court, W.
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