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Backstool

Object number

RIF1076

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

38 1/2 × 19 1/2 × 14 1/2 in. (97.79 × 49.53 × 36.83 cm)

Date

1740–60

Current location

Historic Deerfield, Inc.

Geography

Made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany; white pine

Provenance

Henry N. Flynt (1893–1970), Deerfield, Massachusetts; given to Historic Deerfield, Inc., Massachusetts, 1954

Associated names

Henry N. Flynt

Bibliography

"Antiques at Old Deerfield," Antiques 70, no. 3 (September 1956): 15, ill.
Dean A. Fales, Jr., The Furniture of Historic Deerfield (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1976), 45, fig. 77.