Some Colonial Furniture of Delaware 
SOME COLONIAL FURNITURE! OF DELAWARE 
D ELAWARE abounds in rich old fur¬ 
niture, treasured heirlooms that have 
come down from the early years ot the nine¬ 
teenth century from the century before, and 
in a few instances even from the seventeenth 
century. Daniel DeFoe’s study chair, once 
an heirloom in a family living in one of the 
Eastern Shore counties of Maryland, is now 
a prized curio of the Delaware Historical 
Society, and there are families in all parts of 
the little State who treasure ancestral plate 
and china, chairs, tables and candlesticks, 
and quaint old sea-chests, in which the 
dames of an earlier time were accustomed to 
keep their linen. 
Such treasures are by no means confined 
to the homes of the rich. There are few 
well-to-do families in any Delaware village 
who do not have in daily use one or more 
pieces of old mahogany, and in some unpre¬ 
tentious homes the greater part of the furni¬ 
ture is of that character. 'These are people 
without the fad of the collector, who have 
merely kept and cared for what they have 
inherited, and who have never known what 
it is to live in the midst of new and cheap 
articles, fresh from a western furniture factory 
or the cabinet-making annex of a make- 
believe “antique” shop. Some fortunate 
possessors of this beautiful old furniture, 
HEAVY COLONIAL CHATRS 
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