Furniture Of Rural New England With Rare Pieces Of The Pilgrim Century Terry And Banjo Clocks Hooked Rugs And Embroideries Staffordshire And Lustre Ware Sandwich Glass Pewter The Collection Of Mrs Charles P Soden Sold By Her Order

Download or read book Furniture of Rural New England with Rare Pieces of the Pilgrim Century, Terry and Banjo Clocks, Hooked Rugs and Embroideries, Staffordshire and Lustre Ware, Sandwich Glass, Pewter written by American Art Association and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Furniture of Rural New England With Rare Pieces of the Pilgrim Century, Terry and Banjo Clocks, Hooked Rugs and Embroideries, Staffordshire and Lustre Ware, Sandwich Glass, Pewter: The Collection of Mrs. Charles P. Soden, Naples, Maine, Sold by Her Order We reserve for especial commendation the specimens of early Amer ican handicraft peculiar to a now vanished type - the demure needlewoman of our ancestors - and chiefly consisting of homespun and quilted cover lets and embroideries including a rare gros point table cover [no. An important quilted patchwork cover from Virginia [no. 347] acquired from the George H. Ketcham Collection, Toledo, and exhibited in the Toledo Museum and a hand-woven blue-and-white coverlet [no. 354] of New England work, circa 1840. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.