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House & Garde . 
Deane Coal a n d Can 
Combination Range No. 
2 0 !* will fry an egg or 
roast a turkey, and do 
either equally well. 
Two Popular Fuels 
in one Deane French Range 
Coal, when winter’s frosty mornings 
make the kitchen feel chilly, and gas for 
summer, winter, spring or fall. When un¬ 
expected guests arrive and extra cooking 
must be done quickly, your combination 
range provides an auxiliary oven and cook¬ 
ing top ready for service. 
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\ Name 
V Street 
City . 
No. 209 is made in two sizes, each having a coal 
oven, and a gas oven and broiler. In every way 
this range is superior. It is built by hand from 
Armco rust-resisting iron plates. The trimmings 
are polished hand-forged wrought iron and the 
cooking top is cast from the same metal used in 
making gasolene engine cylinders. 
A Deane Range will cost you more because it is 
built better. It is the range selected for use in the 
nation’s finest homes. It is the product of the con¬ 
cern that built the first street car heater and the 
first cooking range used in a dining car. Your 
Deane Range will be constructed on over sixty 
years’ experience in making cooking equipment of 
the highest class. 
Range No. 209, and others for coal, wood, and 
gas, both singly and in combination, are described 
fully in Catalogue 34. May we send you a copy? 
Bramhaul, Deane Co, 
263-265 West 36 th Sf,New York. N.Y 
. Coupon 213 
BRAMHALL, DEANE CO., 
263-265 West 36th Street, New York. 
I want a good range, so please send me catalogue 34. 
I will build or remodel my home in.’ _ 192 
Name 
Silver of the Conquistadores 
(Continued from page 60) 
weight to manufacture the modern 
Mexican filigree work sold by Western 
curio dealers. A well known Santa Fe 
jeweler said he had bought and melted 
stacks of plates and tankards! Not a 
tankard remains today. Some of the 
very lovely pieces have been picked up 
by dealers here and there, but no col¬ 
lection has been gathered together until 
this. When it was heard of many con¬ 
tributions were made by descendants of 
old families, and by others who had 
pieces in their possession. 
Whence They Came 
The large candlesticks pictured were 
presented by Don Jose Leandro Perea, 
in whose family they had been for cen¬ 
turies, and who himself died some forty 
years ago, to a religious order from 
which they were secured with great 
difficulty by the present owners. The 
sisters parted from their treasures only 
to be enabled, by the sale, to educate 
some of their charges. Two of the 
small candlesticks were found on an 
ash heap, discarded, despised, and tar¬ 
nished almost beyond recognition. An¬ 
other was used by children to dig in 
the sand, and nothing is known of these 
other than their self-evident classic per¬ 
fection. Many lovely plates were found 
in kitchens, one covered with green 
paint, china plates with red roses being 
preferred. 
The large tray came from the family 
of Don Jose G. Chaves of Valencia 
County, New Mexico, a direct descend¬ 
ant of that Chaves of royal blood, Don 
Fernando Duran y Chaves, the founder 
of the family, who came in the latter 
part of the 17th Century, was driven 
out by the Indian revolutions, and re¬ 
turned with De Vargas, when in 1701 
he was given lands outside of the pres¬ 
ent city of Albuquerque. The Chaves 
silver bears the name of “Chabes” (as 
it is sometimes spelled), the ducal coro¬ 
net and often undecipherable marks, 
which appear like coats of arms. Many 
of the plates and goblets, and much of 
the flat silver, are from the Chaves 
family. 
Whether any of the silver in this 
collection was actually in the posses¬ 
sion of De Vargas is not certain. The 
ducal coronet of his coat of arms, as 
illustrated in the Spanish archives of 
New Mexico, appears on many pieces, 
and undoubtedly the De Vargas silver 
was acquired by other old families when 
disposed of according to his will. 
Tembladera and Ewers 
The many-sided dish called a “tem¬ 
bladera” was obtained from one of the 
Cabeza de Vacas (head of the cow) a 
name well known in Spanish-American 
history, and often appearing in the 
Spanish archives. Cabeza de Vaca en¬ 
tered the territory in 1523 with Padre 
de Las Casas. The donor of this price¬ 
less relic vouches that it has been in 
the possession of his family since they 
came to the new world from Spain. ; 
(Continued on page 66 ) 
These examples of flat silver brought in by early Spaniards are 
hand hammered, heavy but simple in design. The shape of the 
forks is somewhat unusual 
