The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-27

ony because IL is not cheap, may be paid for
In six months. A compromise between the
Installment plan and outright buying is Of
fered by certain dealers. One of them
agreed to hold $3.50 suite for me until
could finish the payment il l would at once
deposit with him 81 and promise TO nav the
remainder IN any sums at any times should
choose IL changed my mind concerning
the goods during the interim l should have
the privilege OF selecting anything else in
STOCK. Ihls Is an excellent plan for those
who are not impatient settlers.
But TO return to the house: S63 unspent
for immediate investment. IL friends have
proved unklnd and failed 70 supply table
linen and cutlery on the marriage day, a
Few dollars, not many, since 81 200 does not
warrant much entertainments, must merge
into napery and 6ounce silver plate.
found forks for IS, teaspoons for So so aud
entire silver plate knives for 81 so a dozen.
with the $50 which remain it will be
wlsest TO seek an auction sale. But be wary
and bid only for those articles in which
fraud may not find lurking place. Buy
articles whose characters for trustworthiness
may be Investigated on the spot Don't
bay astove; you don't know what may
have happened to the hampers. Don't buy
lamps or so-called antiques in uphoIstered
chairs, or anything which needs only a
little fixing" in some vital part.
Rugs, Competing, brtc-a-brac and pictures
are the best purchases at a city auction, for
these can't be patched up for the OCCASION
AT New York auction one rainy day,
when the rooms were filed with goods and
the buyers were few in number, saw a
large hair mattress for SIS 70 and three pill
lows filled with the softsst of live geese
feathers for 81 so each. Two very hand
some, though slightly worn, rugs, six feet
long and three wide, we're sacrificed at IS
each. A folding bed with mirror front went
at 81 while a carved oak bedstead
brought S. 80.
When conditions are fortuitous some ex-
traordinary bargains may he driven with
the auctloneer. To succeed, the bidder must
put the crler down as an uncOnscionable
liar; he must not be credited, not listened
TO- nor heeded, for be Is an artist in cheat
ing. 1t Is quite possible even then, how
ever, to wear him out aud buy at an I'M
doubted reduction. for the man is bound TO
dispose of his wares after a certain length Of
time.
An auction in house seized for debt,
where everything is known to be genuine
is safe field for purchasers. Strange to
say, the furniture OF such house may be
bought for nominal sum, while bric-a-
brac and pictures are hidden for with
spirit. Auction sales may save many dol
lars, but the buyer must not be a novice in
observation of the crowd, the auctioneer
and his necessities.
Secondhand fur niture certainly removes
the bridal attribu ties from the new house,
but otherwise it is good Investment.
In little, out OF the way, nondescript
store discovered six pieces Of furnitu re
the ordinary parlor suite-oovered with Will
ton rugs Of good quality for $4S. They
we're slightly worn and dusty but entirely
servioeable. A counterpart of the goods
was valued in an uptown house at $50. IL
hrYxy kkaF,,
diligently in humble localities for riches
unclaimed they might have pleasant homes,
where taste as we'll as bitter necessity has
sway.
But a man must earn more than 81, 200 a
year before he eau insist upon harmonies In
ooloring. AT present it is fashionable to
furnish fats with odd pieces Of different
periods, with only common tint to base
relationship upon. That is not inexpensive
by any means, but by timely defiance of the
fad it is possible to enjoy wide latitude in
taste.
AS incomes mount toward the S. 900
limit where two people are practically
millionaires, decorators take matters in
hand and furnish room with the evil ''sim-
plicity" which costs 81, 900. 1t is almost a
certainty that they will purchase old fur
niturs for you at rates which are exor-
bitent, having been fixed by dealers who
know the full value of Chippendale or Sher-
atom. But there is a method of purchase
which outdoes anything published in "bar-
gains" 1t is the New England auction
sale Of household goods, where claw-footed
tables and mahogany dressers are sold
for S..
Cape Cod and, In fact. the southern and
New England states, have been swept of
their "old colonials ;" but New Hampshire
and Southern Vermont still possess their
ancient treasures.
If wouId-be bidders at one of these forced
sales cannot personally attend, it is a good
idea to write to friends In the vicinity and
ask them to purchase for you. 1t was onI Y
a few months ago that, in Central New
Hampshire. New York woman bought a
solid mahogany 4-post colonial bed for
&C. A magnificent S-day clock, made in
Hartford during the last century, went for
81 on the auctioneer's confession that it did
! not keep Every good time" An old dresser,
whose oval mirror seemed to reflect the
faces of patched and powdered danes of
| revolutionary days, brought $40.
At New Jersey sale in one of the in
terror towns these prices were equaled.
| Some rare blue china plates we're bought
for So dozen, while the cups and saucers
were valued at s..
Now and then one comes across a genuine
Sheraton or Chippendale, but they are
becoming extremely rare. The ball and
claw anu buc w AuuSOE CudlI6 are, perhaps,
the most common of the old make, but they
are by no means easy t. prove genuine.
The colonial claw foot was first man Gfact-
ured in 1863 and was modelled after the
Chinese and Japanese ball and claw. About
ITO the handsome Chippendale ball and
claw chairs with their open interlacing
backs of carved wood aud their handy legs
became common. The Windsor, with it's
fan-shaped wooden back aud hard cushion
less seats belong to the period 1850.
OF the tables which are rare there Is the
! square table with drawers underneath the
board belonging to the first part Of the
seventeenth century. The remarkably
common round table with ball and claw is
of the first quarter of the eighteenth cent
ury. Dressers, tables, chairs, beds, chests
of drawers, everything made in America
until 1900 is titled Unfortunately colon
| ial."
But of course the manufactures Of certain
periods of this time differ decidedly in
value The dolphin carved dressers are es-
pecially to be desired for their quaint and
| curious carvings, and the clocks OF the
Queen Anne period for their rare old
woods.
| 1t is possible to judge of the period to
which furniture belongs by ite wood. In
Massachusetts black walnut, in Connect
cut wild cherry were used in cabinet work
until 1856, when mahogany came into the
market After that date this beautiful
wood was used for the best furniture, but