~ The Furniture Trade Review and Interior Decorator, 1895
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“Makes fifteen pieces of furniture; two hundred changes of position.”

~ Stevens Chair Co., c. 1905
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“They are arranged to be propelled by sprocket, crank and chain movement.”

Interesting use of the hand crank…

~ Paine Furniture Company, c. 1915
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“Since smoking is a luxury, let us be as luxurious as possible.”

~ The Furniture Trade Review and Interior Decorator, 1895
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“We do not handle the MAKESHIFTS of ANTEDILUVIAN MOSSBACKS doing business on their FOREFATHERS’ PRE-HISTORIC GLORY. Neither will you find here any of the ROT MASQUERADING UNDER THE NAME OF FURNITURE and put together by some of the INCIPIENT PARETICS laboring under the UNPARDONABLE HALLUCINATION that they are manufacturers.”

~ The Whittier News, December 5, 1903
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~ Illustrated and Descriptive Circular of Danner’s Revolving Book Cases, John Danner, 1880
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