HOUSE AND GARDEN 
60 
July, 1910 
PERIOD MIRROR OF ROMAN DESIGN 
An accurate replica 
of an old Renaissance 
piece, all wood, hand 
carved and finished in 
antique leaf gold. Other 
mirrors of exquisite de¬ 
sign in all sizes after 
the important periods 
in both reproductions 
and antiques are for 
sale at moderate prices 
at The Celia Shop. 
Also included in the 
assemblage are desirable 
selections in Decorative 
Furniture and Objects, and a select assortment of Italian 
Marbles and Terra Cottas, Sheffield Plate, etc. 
ANTIQUES-RE PRODUCTIONS 
1 East 46th Street N. Y. City 
inspection and correspondence cordially invited, D. A. CELLA 
ANTIQUE FURNITURE 
Rare China, Pewter, 
Old Lamps, Andirons, Etc. 
NO REPRODUCTIONS 
HENRY V. WEIL 
698 Lexington Avenue 
Cor. 57th Street New York 
Dial Shop 
Antiques 
anterior Decoration 
3IRS. HERBERT NELSON CURTIS 
22 East 34th Street NEW YORK CITY 
TELEPHONE 2970 MADISON 
I RANSACK 1000 ATTICS ANNUALLY 
ANTIQUES 
From the oldest and best New England homes. Furniture, China, 
Brass, Copper, Fireplace and cookery utensils. Books, prints, etc. 
Send for photos, lists and descriptions. 
HAND BRAIDED RUGS made by the housewives of Old New England, in all 
colors and from new material. Send for Rug list and 
photos. 
RALPH WARREN BURNHAM, Ipswich in Massachusetts 
Low Cost Suburban Homes 
Plans, illustrations and descriptions of nearly 100 houses which have 
been built at costs ranging from $1000 to $ 10 , 000 . In most cases the 
cost is given. 
Many of the houses have been built as suburban residences — others as 
small country homes or as bungalows or mountain camps. Houses of 
brick, stone, frame, shingle, cement and stucco are included. 
All are distinctive and full of suggestion for anyone interested in build¬ 
ing beautiful but low cost homes anywhere. 
62 pages, beautifully illustrated and printed on coated paper with art 
paper cover. Price 25 cents, postpaid. 
McBride, Winston & Co., 449 Fourth Ave., New York 
enough to hold a good-sized family, and! 
the like. These things may have disap¬ 
peared long ago, for the professional col¬ 
lector has been pretty sure to stumble 
across them. However, one should re¬ 
member that circumstances, and not al¬ 
ways absolute ignorance of values, make 
the pleasant pursuit of collecting a peren¬ 
nial pleasure. People who will not sell 
things to-day may to-morrow, and where 
the most tempting offers met a cold recep¬ 
tion yesterday, even less attractive ones 
may be welcome to-day. Of course one 
does not expect to hitch up a horse-and- 
buggy and go into the neighborhood wilds 
on a house to house canvass, demanding 
admittance at every doorway that prom¬ 
ises to lead to furnishings other than those 
that have been acquired on the instalment 
plan. Indeed, collecting antiques in the 
country sections is a pastime fraught with 
industrious diplomacy. I suppose, if one 
were to begin recipes for getting at things 
of the sort they would begin with smiling 
requests for permission to drink from the 
dipper. In fact, the back door to a farm¬ 
house is always the nearest road to the 
front one, and unless you have conquered 
the kitchen it is little use besieging the 
parlor. As a matter of fact, antiques,_ in 
country places, have a way of deserting 
the best rooms, and rare bits of blue and 
white Colonial china, chests, knife-cases, 
clocks and the like, have a way of finding 
themselves in the pantry and kitchen that 
always sets the heart of the searcher for 
treasures of the sort jumping wildly. Of 
course one of the most provoking ob¬ 
stacles the collector runs across is the dis¬ 
covery that the “simple” farm-folk he has 
been cultivating, by conversations for days 
past, as a measure leading up to the ulti¬ 
mate, are, after all, warily impressed with 
an unexpected sense of what you are up 
to and you awake to find that they have 
“sot great store” by what you didn't think 
they would be “sot” by at all! The an¬ 
tique collector enjoys even the disappoint¬ 
ments to some extent, for it is worth 
while to be learning the ins-and-outs of 
human nature which cannot be better dis¬ 
covered than by browsing around the 
countryside in search of ancestral posses¬ 
sions not “sot store by” by their descend¬ 
ant-owners. Moreover, after a while little 
“human nature" may lead to the hiding 
place of old furniture. 
It is well to remind the amateur that 
the experienced collector has learned how 
an ingenious turn will enable him to util¬ 
ize portions of otherwise damaged pieces 
of old furniture, etc., to excellent advan¬ 
tage, wherefore it is worth while stopping 
twice to consider what otherwise one 
might regard merely as junk. Modern 
cabinet-makers can do wonders with pa¬ 
tience and polish, and I have seen a rose¬ 
wood consol that once ignominously but 
usefully served as a hen-coop, restored to 
the aristocratic claim of being worthy a 
place in a Colonial dining-room where it 
always seemed to look on with a sense of 
satisfaction, even if tinged with regret, 
when fowls were brought upon the table. 
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