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Fifty years ago, in this very column, a collector named Ralph B. Little introduced readers of The Magazine ANTIQUES to the work of Nathan Starkey, a nineteenth-century Philadelphia maker of portable desks and other types of small chests. (1) Now another collector and admirer of Starkey's work has sent us the following contribution, which expands both our knowledge of Starkey and the photographic record of his output. Kevin H. Kerchner writes:
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Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the popularity of portable desks was at its height, with prominent citizens using them both at home and while traveling. Nathan Starkey was ...