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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



September 10, 1921 



Classic Exhibits of Veneer as a Fine Art 



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is an appreciable proportion of the Uminations and adds to the 

 completed built up construction a considerably increased resistance 

 to all forms of stress. Cross veneering or cross layers prevents and 

 minimizes uneven shrinkage in the wood and thereby reduces the 

 internal stresses which are such an element of weakness in solid 

 wood." 



AD in all the material assembled for the Veneer and Plywood 

 Committee, and which is now practically complete, is in very 

 many respects the most thorough and scientific ever brought to- 

 gether for the purposes of an advertising campaign, and it is justly 

 believed that its effect in the trade and with the public at large 

 can hardly fail of very substantial benefit both in a business way 

 and as an educational force for "better furniture for better homes" 

 and a better understanding of the undoubted ascendency of veneer 

 as a fine art. 



The estate of the late George F. Kretschmer, president of the 

 Southern Veneer Manufacturing Company of Louisville. Ky., was 

 left in trust to his widow. It is valued at $8 1 .700, of which $20,700 

 is in realty and the balance in stock of the company which he 

 founded. His sons, George F., Jr., and Louis A. Kretschmer, are 

 named trustees, under bond of $ 1 0,000 each. 



The Max Schuelke Organ Company, Milw^aukee, suffered a heavy 

 loss by fire which almost totally destroyed its factory at Sixteenth 

 Avenue and Orchard Street on July 20. Preparations have been 

 made for resuming operations in other quarters pending the recon- 

 struction and re-equipment of the factory. 



Bureau Veneered With Walnut. The Sloping Folding Top Appeared at the 

 Opening of the XVIIIth Century. Circ. 1710 



The Celebrated Bookcase Designed by Sheraton for "The London Times.* 



"Ruben's Cabinet," Circ. 1620, Executed in Carved Ebony and Veneers 



