OLD FURNITURE
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furniture," which appears to indicate that the
coverings
time were considered of
at that
much importance To
as
Church
Surrey,
in
the pieces themselves
BE Sold by Auction
The genuine household of a gentleman giving
furniture, Linen, China, Pictures, &c.,
up housekeeping, within 2 doors of Barnes
consisting of exceedingly neat
Mahogany
Bedsteads with fluted posts, and printed cotton furniture,
Sedan
chair,
some
as
fine leaden statues, Vases,
a
Flower pots, Iron
Gates, a Harpsichord and a musical Clock.
Auctions were indeed
the highest
festivities of
popularity, even Chippendale having (as
has already been remarked)
when
held one
his partner
Everything, in fact, was put up for
retired.
Even the Lord Mayor
auction.
of
London
sold
under the Corporation to the highest bidder, and that of " Coal Meter " at one time fetched the and the newspapers of the high figure of ^6000 offices
:
day contain numbers of advertisements of various kinds of auctions.
We tion of
volume the evoluthe bedstead from early Saxon times,
traced in
when the
the
first
sleeping-places were built into the wall
one above the other in the manner of berths aboard ship, and in a fashion which to-day followed in Holland and Brittany. this
came the
truckle
bed and
Following
later
oak erections of the sixteenth and
is
the heavy
seventeenth