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OLD WEST SURREY 



posts and moulded beams, with floor projecting over floor, in 

 the gabled fronts of the oak-framed houses. Some of these 

 dressers have three drawers; others again are closed in all 



Oak Clothes Hutch 



round ; this arrangement forming a cupboard under the 

 drawers, with a pair of panelled doors. In these cases the 

 drawers were shallower. 



The dresser shown, like many of its kind, had no back 



Oak Desk 



legs; a thick fillet was nailed to a joint in the brick wall, 

 and on this the back rested. It now stands in a new 

 cottage ; in its older home, no doubt, the top touched the 

 underside of the joists. 



Every farmhouse and many a cottage had its linen-chest ; 



