Curios and relicsFurniture . lldllal ln>\ in n-llit li Mutilitnn ulit \-tHt\l Jihliiiim-IJ Jor Hnml, RBH CHAIRS, UNUSUAL -- Concerning chairs and makers thereof, it may be mentioned that SETHCARLIN [KINSMAN] a renowned California hunter and trapper, is not to bespoken of with levity, for lo! he hath made unique chairs for several of thePresidents of the United States. He presented BUCHANAN with a chair madeof elk horns and hoofs in 1856, and gave ABRAHAM LINCOLN a similar one in1864. ANDREW JOHNSON was the recipient of a chair made of grizzly skinsand claws. During a recent visi
Curios and relicsFurniture . lldllal ln>\ in n-llit li Mutilitnn ulit \-tHt\l Jihliiiim-IJ Jor Hnml, RBH CHAIRS, UNUSUAL -- Concerning chairs and makers thereof, it may be mentioned that SETHCARLIN [KINSMAN] a renowned California hunter and trapper, is not to bespoken of with levity, for lo! he hath made unique chairs for several of thePresidents of the United States. He presented BUCHANAN with a chair madeof elk horns and hoofs in 1856, and gave ABRAHAM LINCOLN a similar one in1864. ANDREW JOHNSON was the recipient of a chair made of grizzly skinsand claws. During a recent visit to the Columbian Exposition, SETH called onGovernor HAYES at Columbus, Ohio, and presented him with a chair similarto the Lincoln and BUCHANAN chairs--of elk horns » hoofs, with agrizzly robe covering. He has another chair similar to the ANDREW JOHNSONchairs in store for the President elect, only it has the addition of a grizzlysferocious head cunningly concealed underneath the seat, which, by touchingspring in th^rear of the chair, is thrown forward, the jaws snap viciously twothree times, when it r
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