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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



September 2 5, 1921 



Beautiful Birch 



ROTARY CUT VENEERS 



There is no better liirch grown than thai found on our 

 Timber Holdings. Send us a trial order for a crate or a 

 carload, and we are confident you will forward repeaters 

 without solicitation. Quality considered, you will find 

 our prices reasonable. 



Bissell Lumber Company 



Mills: 

 TRIPOLI, WIS. 



Address Dept. 3 

 MARSHFIELD, WIS. 



FURNITURE manufacturers and factory buyers who insist on 

 having high quality veneers should send us their orders. We 

 are specialists in Northern Veneers. 



We also manufacture Northern Pine, Spruce, Hemlock, Cedar 

 Posts and Poles, Lath and Shingles, which we ship in straight 

 cars and cargoes or mixed with our "Peerless Brand" Rock 

 Maple, Beech or Birch Flooring. Get Oitr Prices 



The Northwestern Cooperage & Lumber Company 



Chicago Offices: 812 Monadnock Block GLADSTONE, MICH. 



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What Is Real Walnut Furniture? 



According to a bulletin recently issued to furniture manufac- 

 turers, retailers of furniture and the ultimate consumer, by the 

 American Walnut Manufacturers' Association, real walnut furni- 

 ture is the following: 



One might answer the question easily and for that matter, cor- 

 rectly, by saying that it is furniture made of walnut. This 

 should be the answer, but unfortunately, at the present time in 

 the trade we find the name Walnut used to designate a variety 

 of kinds of furniture, some of which have no walnut in them 

 vifhatever. 



In the furniture industry we have designated as Walnut every- 

 thing from absolutely solid, all walnut pieces, down to furniture 

 made entirely of some substitute wood stained a walnut brown. 

 Usually, the latter class is designated as "walniit finish," but 

 we have known of cases in which a purchaser bought it think 

 ing that it was made of walnut wood- 



The following is a classification of the kinds of furniture that 

 may be sold as American Walnut and bought as American Wal- 

 nut without deceit on the part of the seller or regret on the part 

 of the buyer: 



1. SOLID WALNU r. This is a piece made entirely of walnut 

 lumber, inside and out, in which no panels or veneered ply- 

 wood is used. There is relatively a small amount of such furni- 

 lure manufactured, and it is usually hand work, produced on 

 special orders. 



2. ALL WALNUT. This is furniture such as dressers and side- 

 boards and tables, in which all the wood employed is w^alnut 

 except that on table tops, drawer fronts and sides there may be 

 walnut face veneer panels. This construction is really as de- 

 sirable as solid walnut, and in many ways superior, and is the 

 one most commonly used in genuine walnut furniture. 



3. STANDARD WALNUT. In this furniture all the surfaces 

 and exposed parts, including all the solid pieces, such as rails, 

 legs, and other exposed parts of the framework, are of genuine 

 solid walnut. The larger surfaces may be of walnut face veneer 

 panels as described above. The backs and interior parts may be 

 of some other w^ood. 



The following kinds of furniture cannot truthfully be sold as 

 walnut, and in practically every furniture store in the United 

 States will be found furniture that comes under this classification: 



I. — Furniture finished in walnut brown, and having walnut face 

 panels on the larger surfaces and perhaps a small amount of solid 

 w^ood pieces in conspicuous places, but the solid w^ood being princi- 

 pally some other kind. 



2. Furniture having only walnut face panels on the larger sur- 



laces, with the entire construction of some other wood. In this 

 classification falls a very large amount of the medium priced fur- 

 niture that is today sold as American Walnut. By weight or 

 volume such furniture is less than one per cent walnut, and should 

 not be so designated. 



3. — Furniture made entirely of some other wood, including the 

 face panels, but finished in a walnut brown. This is the cheap- 

 est of the different types of so-called walnut furniture to be found 

 on the market, and the name walnut should not be used in con- 

 nection with it in any way, as such use cannot help but be 

 misleading. 



Showers Discharges Women for Veterans 



All women employes of the Showers Bros. Furniture Manufactur- 

 ing Company at Bloomington, Ind., with the exception of the office 

 force, are to be discharged immediately, it was announced a few 

 days ago and former service men who have dependents will be 

 given their places. The step was taken to help relieve the unem- 

 ployment situation in Bloomington. About 100 women are affected. 

 The Showers plant is one of the largest furniture manufacturing 

 plants in the United States. 



Inventor of Pillar Table Dies 



George A. Brown, 58 years old, superintendent of the Speigel 

 Furniture Company at Shelbyville, Ind., died a few days ago at his 

 home in that city. His death was due to apoplexy. Mr. Brown was 

 engaged in furniture manufacturing business most of his life. 

 He was the inventor of the Pillar table. He was a native of Michi- 

 gan and was a Mason of long standing. He is survived by his wife 

 and two daughters. 



Otto Schulz, president of the M. Schulz Piano Company, 71 I Mil- 

 waukee Avenue, Chicago, has returned with his family from a two 

 months' tour of England, Belgium, Holland, France, Germany, 

 Switzerland and Bohemia. 



