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Extraordinary furniture discoveries.(National Society of the Colonial Dames of America)
Search and discovery are a connoisseur's passion and the way historians learn. Nothing beats turning up a treasure in one of the small underexposed house museums scattered around the country. These are the places where the nation's patrimony resides. The previous article provided a wide-ranging look at the furniture owned by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (NSCDA). This article presents some of the truly outstanding previously unpublished pieces discovered while surveying the furniture in the society's properties.
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The first is an example of one of the rarest and most sought-after forms in American furniture--a ...
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