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MORE hinge mechanism which allows it Antique Furniture” by Joseph Send your comments, questions and
COMMON SENSE to tilt vertically. Butler, published by Henry Holt. pictures to me at PO Box 215, Crystal River,
FL 34423 or email them to me at info@
It is available in paperback on
I do not know what you mean
ANSWERS by “buttery”. Perhaps you mean Amazon for under $20 and it furnituredetective.com
Visit Fred’s website at www.
Continued from Page 28 “butterfly”. A butterfly is an could be the single most valuable furnituredetective.com and check out the
downloadable “Common Sense Antiques”
Main St
elliptical piece of wood mounted American furniture book you ever columns in .pdf format. His book “HOW TO BE
A FURNITURE DETECTIVE” is now available
Could you please tell me vertically in the frame of a drop buy. All the above terms with the for $18.95 plus $3.00 shipping. Send check or
exception of the oyster veneer are
Q. what the terms “oyster”, leaf table. It swings out to provide illustrated in this book. money order for $21.95 to Fred Taylor, PO Box
215, Crystal River, FL 34423
“hairy paw”, “egg and dart” “bird support for drop leaf. It was a Fred and Gail Taylor’s DVD,
cage” and “buttery “ mean? They creation of the early William Thanks for writing. “IDENTIFICATION OF OLDER & ANTIQUE
Exit
50
220
are all supposed to either be and Mary period of the late 17th FURNITURE”, ($17.00 + $3.00 S&H) are also
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available at the same address. For more
techniques or designs in furniture century and is still in use today on information call (800) 387-6377 (9AM-4PM
405
and all I can find out about them “Colonial” style drop leaf tables. Eastern, M-F only), fax 352-563-2916, or e-mail
info@furnituredetective.com. All items are also
is that one of them, “oyster “, is a I strongly suggest you acquire a available directly from the website,
type of veneer pattern. copy of “Field Guide to American www.furnituredetective.com
Thanks. PG.
“Oyster” is a type of 50
A. veneer pattern obtained
by cutting a flitch from a branch
directly across the width instead 1
of along the length. The technique 405
generates a piece of veneer with TITUSVILLE
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a pattern of concentric rings,
made by the growth pattern of
the branch. Oyster veneer is very TITUSVILLE
unstable and was used primarily Bay Blvd
in the 17th and 18th century in MELBOURNE
Europe.
“Hairy paw” is the depiction of GRANT - SEBASTIAN
an animal foot (paw) as the foot
on a piece of furniture. The paw 528 VERO BEACH 5
is usually construed to be a lion’s
paw. The “hairy” part comes from
detailed carving of the paw that COCOA
actually represents the hair on 520 Forrest Ave.
the paw. It is a very literal stylistic
element, meaning exactly what Florida Ave. We Buy
it says. The hairy paw was very
popular in American Empire and & Sell
Neoclassical furniture in the early 2
19th century. Sarno Rd. 518
“Egg and dart” is a surface MELBOURNE
decoration derived from classical Wickham Rd.
Greek décor. It was first used in Hibiscus Ave.
the West by English architect 192
William Kent in 1730. The pattern,
seen on molding and inlay of Babcock St.
classical pieces, consists of a series Palm Bay Rd.
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