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• Major Edmund Dickinson, a master cabinetmaker in Williamsburg, Virginia, owned a copy of Thomas Chippendales influential Gentleman & Cabinet-Makers Director. In 1778, Dickinson died fighting in the American Revolution. Valued in his probate inventory at £6 (the same as his new rifle gun), his lavish volume of furniture designs is one of about a dozen Director volumes documented in 18th-century America. Chinese frets and railings were a major rococo design element among Chippendales patterns. Appearing on furniture and architecture built in Williamsburg in the late 18th century, such frets inspired this collection.
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• The product is not food safe.