Early American Furniture Makers
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: March 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781417988679
Subjects: Antique furniture; Furniture; Antiques & Collectibles; Antiques / Collectibles; Antiques/Collectibles
First sentence: FURNITURE history in the United States begins, not with Captain John Smith's company of gentlemen adventurers in Virginia nor with the Hollanders who swapped nineteen dollars worth of beads, hatchets and rum for Manhattan Island, but rather with the austere, nonconforming Englishmen who settled New England.