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Picture This LXXV
The regional stylistic variations of Windsor chairs – and their forerunners, stick chairs – are many. Low-back stick chairs made in Carmarthenshire in the south-west of Wales evolved into a distinct style identifiable by their massive one-piece horse shoe-shaped arms … Continue reading
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Tagged Abel Tasman, Antiques Roadshow, arm, Carmarthen chair, cracket, cricket table, seat, stick chair, sycamore, Windsor chair
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Stuffed
Washing machine repairer, Paddy Devlin, took a glass-cased, stuffed dog along to the Antiques Roadshow when it recently visited Hillsborough Castle near his hometown of Lisburn in Northern Ireland. Taxidermy Chihuahua, possibly by John Hancock, late nineteenth-century. (Christie’s) “Ooh”, purred … Continue reading
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