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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



May 25. 1922 



American Walnut Booth at Buffalo Better Homes Exposition 



American Walnut Displayed at Better Homes Shows 



Patrons of "Better Homes" expositions throughout the country 

 are being instructed by the American Walnut Manufacturers As- 

 sociation in the beauty, durability and widely diversified utility of 

 walnut lumber, veneers and plywood, by means of cleverly ar- 

 ranged and handsome exhibits of walnut products, which have been 

 prepared under the direction of Geo. N. Lamb of Chicago, secre- 

 tary-manager of the association. 



Mr. Lamb has already exhibited in Kansas City. Buffalo, Phila- 

 delphia and Baltimore (was in Baltimore the first week of May) 

 and will show the exhibit later in Detroit and at better homes 

 shows in other large cities of the country. Literally hundreds of 

 thousands of people have viewed the exhibits in the various cities 

 visited and they have attracted attention wherever show^n. 



This publicity has been carefully organized and at each place Mr. 

 Lamb has been on hand, w^ith several assistants, to pass out litera- 

 ture and explain the virtues of walnut to the thousands of men and 

 women who, while going through the better homes shows, paused 

 at the American Walnut booth. Speaking of the interest mani- 

 fested in the exhibits, Mr. Lamb declared that those who have 

 viewed them seemed to be particularly impressed with the various 

 handsome panels shown in finishes which displayed to best ad- 

 vantage the natural beauty of the wood. Next, the public evi- 

 denced an almost unanimous desire to be instructed as to just how 

 to identify real walnut. 



The exhibit which illustrates this article was made in Buffalo 

 and is typical of those made in other cities. Each of the dozen 

 panels shown is different from its fellow and reveals the wide 

 range of standard types of walnut figured panels commercially 

 available. Among the types represented may be mentioned plain 

 rotary, several types of sliced stripe wood, showing various kinds 



of figure and matching; matched stump w^ood, and several types of 

 figured rotary. The beautiful panel in the center of the back wall 

 of the exhibit is a highly figured matched panel such as is used in 

 piano fronts. The fantastic panel to the right of this center panel, 

 exemplified some of the most attractive contrasting tones of 

 brown to be found in walnut panels. The arrangement of the 

 striking figures in this panel creates in the center of the panel the 

 illusion of a "houn" dawg." It attracted a great deal of attention 

 wherever shown. 



On the floor in the back of the booth there are exhibited five 

 different samples of w^alnut flooring, strips, ship decking, herring- 

 bone, blocks, basket w^eave and other parquetry flooring effects, 

 which are extremely popular in show^ windows and also are con- 

 siderably used in high class apartments and homes, w^here per- 

 manently dark-shaded flooring is desired. 



The furniture group shown on the left are costly reproductions 

 of Spanish antiques. The chair on the right-hand side and also the 

 side table are of the Italian Renaissance style of most expensive 

 construction. The chair is covered in hand-woven tapestry. 



The collection of gun stocks shown to the left exemplifies the 

 extreme dependability of walnut. The placard over the stocks says 



that gun stocks are made only of w^alnut the supreme test of 



a cabinet w^ood." The stocks shown were for sporting rifles, fancy 

 ^hot gun stocks of figured crotch wood and a stock for the Enfield 

 military rifle. 



The small airplane propeller at the top of the booth also ad- 

 vertises the reliability of walnut, its strength and freedom from 

 wa.ping and shrinking. The airplane propeller placard says: 

 Airplane propellers must not fail. Walnut makes the best." 



