January, 1914 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
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An Everlasting Trowel 
This garden trowel ij made from highest grade 
crucible steel. The blade is one-sixteenth of an 
inch thick. The blade, shank and socket are 
forged from one solid piece. The maple handle 
fits right and is fastened to stay , with a steel 
rivet— a quality tool that will lust a lifetime. 
Km mm 
Garden Tools 
are all of proved quality. They 
have earned and kept a good name 
for nearly half a century. Ask your 
dealer to show you a Keen Kutter 
nursery spade for transplanting 
shrubs, bushes and small trees. 
Double steel straps entire length of 
handle. A better spade doesn' t exist. 
"Thi Recollection of Quality Remains 
Long Alter the Price is Forgotten." 
Trade Mark Registered. — E C. SIMMONS. 
If not at your dealer's, write us. 
SIMMONS HARDWARE COMPANY 
° ar No K 04 81 St ' L °“ i5 NeW Y ° rk Philadelphia 
Price $°0 7 0 each Toledo Mioneapolii Sioux City Wichita 
Rational 
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Company 
Established 1888 
Designers and 
Engravers for 
all Artistic, 
Scientific and 
Illustrative 
Purposes 
Engravers of “American 
Homes and Gardens.’* 
144648 &pa be g>t., J 5eto gorfe 
TELEPHONE, 1822 WORTH 
STANDING SEAM 
ROOF 
IRONS 
PATENTED 
CLINCH right through the 
standing seam of metal 
roofs. No rails are needed 
unless desired. We make a 
similar one for slate roofs. 
Send for Circular 
Berger Bros. Co. 
PHILADELPHIA 
HESSi^ LOCKER 
The Only Modern, Sanitary 
STEEL Medicine Cabinet 
or locker finished in snow-white, baked 
everlasting enamel, inside and out. 
Beautiful beveled mirror door. Nickel 
plate brass trimmings. Steel or glass 
shelves. 
Costs Less Than Wood 
Never warps, shrinks, nor swells. Dust 
aud vermin proof, easily cleaned. 
Should Be In Every Bathroom 
Four styles— four sizes. To recess in 
wall or to hang outside. Send for illus- 
„„ . t rated circular. 
Th* Recessed Steel HESS, 926 Tacoma Building. Chicago 
Medicine Cabinet A la hers of Steel Furnaces -Free Booklet 
THE COLLECTORS* \ 
MART 
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Collectors are minted to send short descrip 
Hons of their wants and offerings to the Col 
lectors’ Mart. H ants and offerings will be in 
sorted in this column -without charge. American 
Homes and Gardens tabes no responsibility in 
connection with any of the offerings submitted. 
. Ill communications should be addressed to "Col- 
lectors’ Mart, American Homes and Gardens. 
361 Broadway, Ne re York. N. .Ill replies 
should be accompanied by a blank envelope, 
stomped and marked with the register initials 
(-which identify the wants and offerings ) in the 
lower left hand corner of the envelope, the whole 
to be enclosed in the envelope addressed to the 
C ollectors' Marl. PhotoaraPhs should be care- 
fully protected and packed flat. 
Offered: Dinner service of Spocle, 120 
pieces. Made at Stoke-on-Trent, Eng- 
land, period 1805. Elaborately embel- 
lished in colors, flowers and gold on white 
ground. Each piece marked “Spcxle” 
with the Greek cross, numbered differ- 
ently. All in perfect condition, having 
never been in use. An heirloom in an 
English family. N. V. C. 
Offered: Exceptionally handsome ster- 
ling silver tea and coffee set, made by 
Chas. Fox, London, 1831, and old Shef- 
field tray, 19x36 inches. Set comprises 
coffee pot, tea pot, cream and sugar 
howls, pomegranate design of applied sil- 
ver. Offers for complete set only consid- 
ered. Photographs on request. W. R. 
Offered: Antique Scotch grandfather 
clock made by Er. Walker, Lockerby. 
Solid mahogany case, eight-day works. 
Running. Price, $125. Photo and full 
description cheerfully sent if interested. 
E.N.R. 
Offered: Louis XVI bronze clock set. 
Took gold medal in large collection of 
period clocks in Paris in 1889. Cost 
$1,000; sell for $500. Miniature by Du- 
bois 205 years old. European collection 
of souvenir spoons, gold, silver and enam- 
el. Will sell singly. Also some exquisite 
old Dutch silver cabinet pieces. C. A. M. 
Offered: A Chantilly lace shawl (black) ; 
depth 60 inches, width 108 inches. Book- 
plate of Lord George Lennox, great 
grandson of Charles II, showing the 
royal arms and those of his wife, the 
daughter of the Marquis of Lothian, 
1759. L. M. 
Offered: Autograph of General George 
Washington on face of Army frank; old 
beaded pin-cushion, beauty ; old beaded 
bag, wreath and cluster of leaves and 
flowers worked on old velvet, clasp top ; 
old French porcelain cup and saucer, 
large size, corrugated gold hands, very 
pretty; large Battledore and Shuttlecock, 
copper lustre pitcher, rare; Bunker Hill 
Monument glass cup plate; 13^-inch 
round pewter plate. I. V. V. 
Wanted: New York, Brooklyn or Long 
Island prints, maps, medals, documents 
and autographs; also governors of New 
York, engravings and autographs. Will 
exchange subscription editions of historic 
books. C. A. D. 
Wanted: Mahogany chairs of the Em- 
pire period of American furniture. Also 
Hepplewhite sideboard and corner-cup- 
board with proof of age and ownership. 
A. D. H. 
Burpee’s 
Seeds 
Burpee s 
Annual for 1914 
which is now being mailed at the 
rate of more than ten thousand 
copies every day, is a Bright New ^ 
Book of 182 pages and is known as w 
the “Silent Salesman” of the world’s ^ 
largest Mail-order Seed trade. It 
tells the plain truth about 
Burpee- Quality 
Seeds that Grow 
With hundreds of illustrations from 
photographs and carefully written « 
descriptions of Vegetal)!- and ? 
Flower Seeds, it is a safe r it it/e to 
Success in the garden and should be 
consulted by every one who plants J 
seeds either for pleasure or profit. «j 
We are pleased to mail it free to *« 
every one who has a garden and asks 
for it. Shall we mail you 4 
a copy ? If so, kindly men- 
tion “American Homes and 
Gardens” and write to day. 
W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO. 
Burpee Building* 
PHILADELPHIA 
IVES PATENT: 
WINDOW STOP ADJUSTER 
Prevent* Draft*, Du*t and Window Ruttling 
The only stop odju«ter made from one piece of metal with *olid 
riba ond heavy bed that will not cup or turn in tightening the *crcw 
Detcriplivr circular mailed on application 
THE H. B. IVES CO. 
Manufacturers of Builders’ Hardware 
NEW HAVEN, CONN., U. S. A. 
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