July, 1 91 3 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



IX 



Readers of American Homes and Gardens who are interested in old furniture, silver, prints, 

 brass, miniatures, medals, paintings, textiles, glass, in fact in any field appealing to the collector are 

 invited to address any enquiries on such matters to the Editor of the "Collectors' Department," and 

 such letters of enquiry will receive careful attention. Correspondents should enclose stamps for reply. 

 Foreign correspondents may enclose the stamps of their respective countries. 



B. P. C. : The pattern of the coverlet 

 1 photograph of which you send for iden- 

 tification), is variously designated in dif- 

 ferent communities. According to Eliza 

 Calvert Hall, an authority on hand-woven 

 coverlets, this pattern is called "Musca- 

 dine Hulls" in Georgia, "Double Musca- 

 dine Hulls'' in Mississippi, "Double Bow 

 Knot" in Kentucky, and "Hickory Leaf" 

 in Rhode Island. These early coverlids 

 are of great variety and interest, and a 

 collection of them would be well worth 

 the attention given to assembling it as 

 the time is soon to come when collections 

 of this sort will be sought for eagerly by 

 our public museums which are, nearly all 

 of them, lacking in examples of this de- 

 lightful early handcraft. 



M. X.: In the latter part of the seven- 

 teenth century, two of the most notable 

 lanterns were used in Chichester, Eng- 

 land, They were styled in vulgar par- 

 lance, "The Sun," and "The Moon." 

 The larger of the two was "The 

 Sun," which was used to escort a new 

 Mayor, just after he had taken the oath 

 of office, and also was prominent in pro- 

 cessions when royalty came to visit Chi- 

 chester. The Mayor's nightly rambles 

 on all other occasions, were attended by 

 "The Moon," a huge lantern twenty-six 

 inches in diameter, covered with trans- 

 lucent plate of horn and lighted by eight 

 candles placed inside. 



A certain Lord Middleton, of Pepper- 

 harrow in Surrey, had a great moon lan- 

 tern which was used for the same pur- 

 pose. It was borne before His Lordship 

 whenever he ventured forth at night, by 

 a man on horseback, and was in use as 

 late as 1750. Over the gateways of 

 prominent citizens or the clergy, on mar- 

 ket days, and during fairs and other open 

 air amusements, lanterns were commonly 

 displayed. 



There is no form of collective interest 

 about which so little has been written as 

 upon the subject of old lanterns, and one 

 reason for this is perhaps on account of 

 its crude design, which makes it of little 



interest to the average collector, save as 

 an antique. 



L. C. G. : Christie's, the famous London 

 F~ine Art auction room, was immortalized 

 as early as 1781 in Modern Manners 

 where the following lines occur: 

 "But come to Christie's, make haste, John — 

 All the bargains will be gone." 



N. E. : The sword hilt of which you 

 send the illustration clipped from a mag- 

 azine is to be found in the South Ken- 

 sington (Albert and Victoria) Museum, 

 London. It was made for Caesar Borgia. 



H. V. : The print you send is a process 

 copy of an extremely rare etching of 

 "Arlington House," London, which once 

 occupied the site where Buckingham 

 Palace now stands. Only four copies of 

 the original are recorded in existence. 



W. E. L. : A fine copy of the first edition 

 of Oliver Goldsmith's "Deserted Village" 

 recently brought some eighty pounds in 

 an English auction room. 



L. S. P. : The colored woodcut, of a 

 portrait of Lafayette, full-length on 

 horseback, holding a French flag, the 

 Hotel de Ville of Paris in the back- 

 ground, by Pellerin fat Epinal) 1830 in 

 large folio, is not of great value. This 

 print in fine condition will bring about 

 $5 in the market. On the other hand 

 the stipple printed portrait showing 

 Lafayette full length, in uniform, stand- 

 ing, left hand resting on a pedestal, a 

 sword in the right hand and in the lower 

 left distance a view of an encampment, 

 and bearing the imprint "Bee sculp. A 

 Paris /chez Bance" is wCrth fully $100 

 if in fine condition. Of course there is 

 great satisfaction in the possession of 

 rarities and unusually fine prints, but the 

 true collector appreciates the fact that 

 prints of lesser value are often of even 

 greater intrinsic interest. The true col- 

 lector is one who has an absorbing pas- 

 sion for the subject matter of his col- 



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