October, 19 13 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



XI 



owned by the Metropolitan Museum, New 

 York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Bos- 

 ton. Had your's the figure of Franklin as 

 well, it would be of greater value than what 

 we have stated. The small silver and ebony 

 article of which you send a photograph ap- 

 pears to be an antique tongue scraper, an 

 article used by physicians and individuals 

 during the eighteenth century in cleaning 

 the tongue, which was supposed to be the 

 origin of all diseases when in a coated con- 

 dition. These little instruments were often 

 found in the traveling toilet cases of that 

 period ; but happily, have long since gone 

 into disuse. We recently heard of one sold 

 in Salem, Mass., to a curio collector for 

 one dollar. Its value would hardly exceed 

 this. If you will place the scraper on a 

 piece of paper and draw a pencil outline of 

 it. we can then determine exactly whether 

 or not it is the instrument such as we de- 

 scribe. The piece of metal between the 

 two handles would determine this as it. was 

 usually of silver slightly sharpened at one 

 side. The steel engraving of Washington's 

 family published by John Dainty of Phila- 

 delphia is in no demand to-day and there- 

 fore is of no great value. The Conductor 

 Generalis, etc., published by Andrew Brad- 

 ford, 1722, was a handbook of law used by 

 Justices of the Peace and was published by 

 Bradford annually. It therefore has only a 

 small value and has sold in recent book 

 sales for from $6 to $11 a copy. 



G. K. : The bells you describe appear to 

 be early seventeenth century hawk's bells 

 such as were attached to the falcons in 

 olden times. An old chronicler of the 

 time of James I, states that "A small 

 strap, fastened with rings of leather, 

 passed round each leg of the hawk, just 

 above the talons ; they were termed 

 bewets, and each of them had a bell at- 

 tached. In a flight of hawks, it was so 

 arranged that the different bells varied 

 in tone, so that a consort of sweet sounds 

 might be produced." Fine old falcon 

 bells are not commonly to be met with. 



W. K. : Referring to your chairs we 

 would say they are of the following 

 periods and values : 



1: Late mahogany (1840-1850), value, 

 S? to $10; 2: Sheraton about 1790, value 

 armchair, about $150, plain chair, about 

 $100 to S125 ; 3 : Dutch marquetry, value 

 S25 or less; 4: Slat back (first part of 

 eighteenth century), value, $7 to $10; 5: 

 American early nineteenth century, value, 

 about $15. The table is probably Duncan 

 Phyfe make, about 1830. Value, $75 to 

 $100. We regret that the description and 

 photograph of the lamp, box and bottles 

 is not adequate enough to permit us to 

 give an opinion or value on same. 



E. S. F. : In reply to your letter of June 

 3, we beg to state that the description 

 of the first coin to which you refer (that 

 dated either 1737, 1757 or 1787) is not 

 sufficient to positively identify the coin. 

 If copper it would have no value what- 

 soever, if silver it might have. The sec- 

 ond coin is one of Ferdinand the Seventh, 

 It is hardly probable that this coin would 

 have any particular value in the condition 

 you describe. The third coin, that dated 

 1825, coin of George the Fourth, has no 

 premium, and if silver, would be worth 

 its face value only. The one-cent pieces 

 dated 1810 to 1856 would be worth about 

 five cents each unless in particularly fine 

 condition in which case the cent-piece of 

 1810 would be worth $1. The Canadian 

 dime, dated 1858, if in fine condition, 

 would be worth 10 cents, or in Canada 



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