This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...round mahogany tray is a nice example of one of the simple uses to which this wood was put at about the same date. The light has caught the grain in the photograph and makes it look rougher than it is. In reality it has a good surface that responds well to careful polishing, and is an admirable ground to its burden of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...round mahogany tray is a nice example of one of the simple uses to which this wood was put at about the same date. The light has caught the grain in the photograph and makes it look rougher than it is. In reality it has a good surface that responds well to careful polishing, and is an admirable ground to its burden of silver and china tea-things. For, after its many years of cottage life, where, to judge by its good condition, it must have stood unused upon some safe shelf, it is restored to use in a house of a better class. It is a great pity that a very pretty kind of tea-tray of black papier-machi, with a decoration of roses and other flowers, partly of mother-o'-pearl and partly painted, evidently the simpler descendant of these older trays, and formerly in frequent use in humble and middle-class dwellings, should have gone out of make and use. Odds and ends of pretty china and glass had also drifted somehow into the cottages. Porcelain, generally cracked, but whole in the pieces shown, and a variety of pretty wineglasses, I have found from time to time. The old liqueur glass is engraved with flowers, the taller ones with barley and vine-leaves. Separate pieces and occasionally sets of pewter table ware, though oftener found in houses of a better class, come to light from time to time at farm sales, and sometimes single plates at cottages. The oldest and always the bestlooking, in the case of plates and dishes, have the edge quite flat and rather wide. Pewter mugs are still in use in public-houses. Of those in the picture the three to the left in the row of six are the oldest; No. 3, a mug without a handle, being of unusually good material. It must contain a larger proportion of silver than usual. Many and various are the things that see the light at th...
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