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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



June, [913 



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might be anywhere from $500 to $1,200, 

 and can he used without the cover as a 

 centerpiece for flowers on the table or 

 with the top as a table-center decoration. 

 Silver coffee urns are used for the same 

 purpose to-day with the spout removed. 



H. R. : The trays of black tin decorated 

 with coaching scenes you describe were 

 used in English inns during the past hun- 

 dred years and cost a few shillings each. 

 Their value has been greatly enhanced 

 since that time, costing from $25 to $75 

 each in America and are adaptable for tea 

 trays used in gardens, country houses, 

 etc. 



G. R. F. : The French miniature painter, 

 Jean Guerin (1760-1836) produced minia- 

 tures in two decided styles differing one 

 from the other. Guerin was a pupil of 

 J. B. Isahey. His elaborately delicate 

 stippled work is very graceful, but his 

 best work is to be found in those minia- 

 tures executed in his other style, which 

 was much bolder and which was marked 

 with a virile ruggedness of execution. 

 Such an example is to be seen in Guerin's 

 portrait of Kleber (dated 1798), which is 

 in the Louvre. 



II. L. J.: A fine proof before letters of the 

 engraved portrait of Cardinal Jules Maz- 

 arin by Jean Frosne (1C55) would hardly 

 command a price exceeding four dollars. 

 The portrait of Ninon de L'Enclos in 

 colors by Francois Janinet (we take this 

 to be the one after the portrait painted 

 by Mignard) would be worth fully thirty 

 dollars if in fine condition. 



W. E. K. : Interesting prints connected 

 with the history of aeronautics are not 

 common, and a most interesting collec- 

 tion could be formed by assembling a 

 number of them. The Editor recalls hav- 

 ing seen in a Paris print selling shop an 

 unusually interesting lithograph depict- 

 ing the balloon ascent of M. Sadler and 

 Miss Thompson from Burlington House 

 (London) in 1814. It would be interest- 

 ing to know of earlier prints of women 

 aeronauts. 



R. B. : The glaze of Lambeth delft is 

 not so thick and is much whiter than 

 that of other English delft wares. Like- 

 wise its blues are not so crude. Bottles 

 of Lambeth delft may date back to the 

 middle of the seventeenth century (about 

 the time Charles I was executed), and 

 later specimens were dated until 1664, in 

 which year New Amsterdam was sur- 

 rendered by the Dutch to the English. 



B. E. C. : Folding furniture boasts of a 

 venerable descent. The Editor has no 

 doubt but that folding beds were known 

 to the Babylonians. In Ince and May- 

 hew's "Universal System of Household 

 Furniture" there appeared an illustration 

 of "A Bed to appear as a Sofa with fixed 

 canopv over it ; the curtains draw upon 

 a Rod ; the cheeks and seats takes off to 

 open the bedstead," and this recalls to 

 one's mind Oliver Goldsmith's lines : 

 "Chest of Drazuers a double debt to pay : 

 A bed by night, a chest of drazvers by day." 



E. C. B. : The Sheraton corner wash- 

 stands are not uncommon. Their small 

 size makes them almost useless from to- 

 day's standpoint. 



