THE subject of little stands, and candle stands proper, has never
received much treatment, and we therefore have laid special stress on
placing them before the reader in some profusion.
On the left is a little trestle stand belonging to Mr. Chauncey C. Nash.
It much resembles the larger stands on pages 448 and 449. It will be
noted that in the true trestle styles the shoe and the cleat above, whether
or not attached to the table, are similar, so that the effect is that of a capital
I with the horizontals much extended and chamfered nearly to a point.
Date: 166o or thereabout.
The other stand has a movable rod in a socket, with a wooden thumb
nut to secure it. The minute feet, mere pins, are droll. Little adjustable
stands are often called shoemaker's. It is quite impossible to date this
piece accurately. We may say 1700-30. It passed through the hands of
Mr. Henry V. Weil who furnished the photograph. In its turnings and
general contour its like is hardly known.

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