Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-06-17
T>HERE is really no enunerating

MERE IS really no eDUneraLlnG
the different and interesting
kinds of old chairs, lbles.
which are here - - - rom.
particularly as re-, things -. e COM
ing in constantly.
You'll see stately comeback chairs;
rush-bottom chairs and rockers; a
set Of handsome Chippendale dining
room chairs of mahogany, with seats
covered in wonderful old darnask;
slat-back, rush seated Lancashire
chairs, after very ancient pattern,
and so on.
The variety in tables runs TO
twenty or thirty kinds, mostly in wal
nut, curly maple and cherry: A nice
little mahogany pier-table, unmistak-
ably Colonial; charming dish-rim
tea-tables Zone set out with dainty,
thin old Minton tea-set, which is for
sale) can be found.
A massive old tavern table Of curly
maple, feet long and SO inches wide,
is curiosity; while to go with the
mahogany dining chairs and corner
cupboard there is a fine long table,
built on very simple lines, and two
splendid old Georgian mahogany side
boards, one an exquisite example of
inlay of the Sheraton school.
There are delightful old desks and
writing-tables, some Boosting "a
many as ID big and little drawers
also chests of drawers, such as the
magazine writer celebrates.
Two extremely handsome speci-
mems of chests Of drawers are TO be
noted, one Sheraton model showing
really marvellous effects in fancy
veneering, and another of recessed
construction, with line inlay, both of
very fine curly maple.
nERHAPS the features which at
tract the most attention in the
whole collection are the simple
pleasing little low-post beds with
shaped headboards. These come in
maple, both curly and plain, and are
priced very reasonably.
Something that goes with one of
these beds most appropriately is one
OF the old fringed bed-coverlets
hand-woven of pure wool. We have
several, some patterns in very CAV
cCoIors, others, very beautiful, in navy
blue and white.
One of them, showing a ravarsa
side because it was woven double il
remarkable example of the inoa-
nuity in hand-weaving of some in
dustrious Pennsylvania dame or
maiden.
We often paint and decorate such
beds to order in our own far-famed
studios, and the result is amazingly
attractive.
Such bed is now on disnIav
in the Antique Section, painted in
soft antique ivory and banded in
coral. 1t is dressed most gracefully
in deep-founced cover in whits
Swiss with red dots, over a coral
colored Slip"
The old-fashioned dressing table {,
founced in the same way; there % !
chest OF drawers, mirror, chair, drop
leaf sewing-table and rocker, painted
and decorated to match, and the eff.
feet is exquisite in its old-fashionec
atmosphere. 1t can be carried out tc
your order in other colors of finish
and chlntZ.
Do not leave these attractive par.
lors"-as our dear old ancestors
would surely have called them-with
out viewing some Of the massive mar
rage chests, some stenciled in colors
and the fine carved wood mantelpiect
which has almost historic value; TO,
did it not come from the old Vor
Steuben place near Easton, Pennsyl
vania, where the friend of Washing
ton and brave champion of America,
independence passed so much time a
his brothers guest?