Table, pull type and radial circular saws similar to those used for cutting wood or metal are suitable for cutting Lucite methyl methacrylate resin. Blades with from 5 to 8 teeth per inch and no set give good results when running at a rate of about...
Family eating corn on the cob at the dining room table in a home during the Victorian era. Family is unidentified; home probably located in or near Wilmington, Delaware.
Handwritten on back: "This shows two pedestals of the big dining table #22. The other pedestal is equidistant from the center". Handwritten on envelope: "Furniture offered by Clifford W. Ashley November 1908. Offered for Sale to P.S. du Pont."
Certain classes of Stetson soft hats are curled in the Flanging Department of the John B. Stetson Company, Philadelphia. The edge of the brim is dampened, and is then turned up with a small heated iron. It is placed on a hollow wooden form under a...
Mirror glass and black lacquered wood are two mediums now being widely used by modern French furniture designers. Pieces offered by Colette Gueden, Paris, show great simplicity in design, the mirror glass being used as a decorative element in the...
Lucie Renaudot of Paris makes interesting use of glass and metal in boudoir furniture for the modern home. Note the mirror glass as a table top and sides for the dressing table. Glass tubing is also used as supports for these two pieces, with...