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Show Stopper: Walnut Armchair
“As rare as hen’s teeth.” was the first thing Scott Chalfant said to me as I was admiring this walnut wainscot armchair at the Hospital Show. It had been made in Pennsylvania in ...
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The first split of a white oak log, into two halves. The rule of thumb is always split a piece of wood into equal halves, lest the split run to the thinner, and weaker, side.
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Route 89 Northwest to Burlington is one of the prettiest bits of interstate in the country. Just about an hour's drive through upland woods, the ride is restful and the jaunt prepared me for a trip...
Show Stopper: Walnut Armchair“As rare as hen’s teeth.” was the first thing Scott Chalfant said to me as I was admiring this walnut wainscot armchair at the Hospital Show. It had been made in Pennsylvania in ...
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The carving on the group of joined furniture known collectively as "Sunflower" is among the most recognizable decoration of any group of seventeenth-century New England furniture. Almost 100 Sunflo...
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It was a very lucky child who was given this miniature walnut dressing table around the middle of the eighteenth century. She obviously used it, or played with it, very carefully because it was in ...