Bye-paths in Curio CollectingT.F. Unwin Limited, 1919 - 462 psl. |
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... period which should claim recognition from collectors on account of the value in completing the chain in the development of domestic furniture . Throughout my previous works on Furniture and Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture , on Old ...
... period which should claim recognition from collectors on account of the value in completing the chain in the development of domestic furniture . Throughout my previous works on Furniture and Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture , on Old ...
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... periods of curious scrutiny by town dwellers and others . First was the cycling age , when fashion- able folk scoured the country on wheels and discovered old - world retreats as quaint as those on the Continent ; secondly came the ...
... periods of curious scrutiny by town dwellers and others . First was the cycling age , when fashion- able folk scoured the country on wheels and discovered old - world retreats as quaint as those on the Continent ; secondly came the ...
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... . It should not be forgotten that collectors have existed in England for no inconsiderable period . In 1758 a writer in the Idler bewails his lot : " I am the husband of a buyer of bargains . . 32 BYE - PATHS IN CURIO COLLECTING.
... . It should not be forgotten that collectors have existed in England for no inconsiderable period . In 1758 a writer in the Idler bewails his lot : " I am the husband of a buyer of bargains . . 32 BYE - PATHS IN CURIO COLLECTING.
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... period , to the Italian renaissance , from Diane de Poitiers to Marie Antoinette a procession of caskets marks the march of time . The casket was designed to hold priceless jewels , and it often held written records . A golden casket ...
... period , to the Italian renaissance , from Diane de Poitiers to Marie Antoinette a procession of caskets marks the march of time . The casket was designed to hold priceless jewels , and it often held written records . A golden casket ...
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... period of time , and it is notice- able that their form has been retained up to the present day . The modern American trunk with drawers in front is only a newer development of these old impedimenta of bygone travellers . The journey of ...
... period of time , and it is notice- able that their form has been retained up to the present day . The modern American trunk with drawers in front is only a newer development of these old impedimenta of bygone travellers . The journey of ...
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A. E. Smith amulets artistic beautiful Bible Bible box blue bowl brass cabinet candle carved casket Caspar Netscher Charles chest china Chinese coffer collection collector colour costume cups decoration Dutch ear-rings early earthenware eighteenth century enamel England English engraving Etruria Evil Eye examples exhibited factory faience fashion figures French glaze green handle head Hispano-Moresque House illustrated inches inscribed inscription Ireland Irish Italian jars Josiah Wedgwood ladies late eighteenth later Liverpool London Lowestoft marquetry metal modern origin ornament pack painted period pipe plate playing cards porcelain portrait printed profile painter Queen regard rich rococo Rouen royal salt salt cellars seventeenth century SHEFFIELD PLATED shows silhouette silver snuffers Spanish specimens spinning spinning-wheels Staffordshire style symbols tea-pot tiles tinder box tobacco tobacco boxes tobacco stoppers Toby jug toys transfer-printed types various vases ware wheel wood
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55 psl. - neath my tabernacle take my rest, With those nine columns round me, two and two, The odd one at my feet where Anselm stands: Peach-blossom marble all, the rare?; the ripe As fresh-poured red wine of a mighty pulse.
386 psl. - ... and can. I have heard that on a day Mine host's sign-board flew away, Nobody knew whither, till An astrologer's old quill To a sheepskin gave the story, Said he saw you in your glory, Underneath a new old sign Sipping beverage divine, And pledging with contented smack The Mermaid in the Zodiac.
113 psl. - What though you have found no treasure, nor has any rich relation left you a legacy. Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
384 psl. - It is the moon — I ken her horn, That's blinkin' in the lift sae hie ; She shines sae bright to...
157 psl. - For while with their knife which they hold in one hand they cut the meate out of the dish, they fasten the forke which they hold in their other hand upon the same dish, so that whatsoever he be that sitting in the company of any others at...
199 psl. - We had an elegant house situated in a fine country, and a good neighbourhood. The year was spent in moral or rural amusements, in visiting our rich neighbours, and relieving such as were poor. We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo ; all our adventures were by the fire-side, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.
128 psl. - ... any spring-gun, man-trap, or other engine calculated to destroy human life or inflict grievous bodily harm, with intent that the same or whereby the same may destroy or inflict grievous bodily harm...
68 psl. - If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the Scripture than thou dost.
33 psl. - ... be served; the parlour is decorated with so many piles of china, that I dare not step within the door; at every turn of the stairs I have a clock, and half the windows of the upper floors are darkened that shelves may be set before them.
129 psl. - ... such as may have been or may be usually set or placed with the intent of destroying vermin : Provided also, that nothing in this section shall be deemed to make it unlawful to set or place, or cause to be set or placed, or to be continued set or placed, from sunset to sunrise, any spring gun, man trap, or other engine which shall be set or placed, or caused or continued to be set or placed, in a dwelling house, for the protection thereof.