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2005
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'Observations on the Earliest Known Windsor Chairs', Robert Parrott.
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'John Pitt (1714-59), Thames Valley Windsor Chair Maker', Robert Parrott and Michael Harding Hill.
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'Irish Sideboards', David Jones and Fergus Purdy.
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'Robert Lorimer and Scott Morton & Company', Christina M Anderson.
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'Robert Lorimer's Use of Timber', David Jones.
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SHORTER NOTICE:
'A Dug-Out Chair from the South Lake District', Liz Hancock.
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2004
- Windsor Chairs from the Vale of York. Adam Bowett.
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- The Short Arm Experiment. John Boram.
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- Furniture Makers in Eighteenth Century Aberdeen: an Introduction.
Janet Brinsden.
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- Carluke Dressers. David Jones.
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- Chests, Coffers and Trunks in East Anglia, 1650 - 1730: a Step Towards
Definition. Janet Sleep.
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- A Lakeland Chest Dated 1683. Michael Bucknole.
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- The Perceval Compton Windsor Chair. Diana Taylor.
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- Select Bibliography of Books and Articles on Furniture published between
July 1994 and June 2004. Ivan Sparkes.
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2003
The 2003 Journal was titled 'Roger Warner:
Memoirs of a Twentieth Century Antique Dealer.' It is also
available in book form at the price of £20.00. For full details
of contents click here.
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2002
The 2002 Journal focused upon Scottish furniture comprising five articles
of original research into furniture connected to Scotland, and a complete reprint
of 'The Glasgow Cabinet Maker's Book of Prices' 1806. The contents are
as follows:
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- Introduction: The Glasgow Book of Prices for Manufacturing Cabinet
Work, 1806. David Jones
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- Reprint of the Glasgow Book of Prices for Manufacturing Cabinet
Work, 1806.
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- Walter Newall of Dumfries, Stephen Jackson and Marion Stewart.
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- 'Quilled on the Cann': Alexander Hart, Scottish Cabinet Maker, Radical
and Convict, John Hawkins.
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- Chair Making in the Northern Counties of Scotland and in New Zealand,
David Hutchinson.
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- Research Methods in the Outer Hebridies, Caroline Hirst.
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- William Craigie and the Furnishing of Melsetter House, Hoy, Annette
Carruthers
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2001
- Cabin Furnishings on Canal Barges of North Western England, M.
K. Stammers
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- Joseph Matthias of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, 1771-1839, Luke
Millar
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- A North Wales Interior by Cornelius Varley, CatherineWeston.
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- Johnson & Appleyards Ltd of Sheffield: A Victorian Family Business,
JulieBanham.
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- English Furniture Locks, J.A.Berry.
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- Darvel Chair Update, Stephen Hunter
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- The Sitter Revealed: A Portrait of George Smith, John Evan Bedford.
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2000
- How to make a Borders Box Bed, Daniel Maudlin
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- Midland Lockers and other Furniture for the Settle-Carlisle Railway,
David Jones and Sarah Medlam
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- English West Country Cupboards, Gabriel Olive
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- An Artist of the Vernacular: William Collingwood's Lake District Interiors,
Noel Riley
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- The Furnishings of Queensberry House, 1700-25, John Lowrey
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- Furniture in Uffculme Inventories, 1576-1762, Alison Lee
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- Don Carolis: A Case Study of a Nineteenth-Century Colombo Furniture
Maker, Robin Jones
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- The Lum Chest: A Connecticut Yankee in Scotland? Mary Ann Apicella
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1999
- Lightning Stools, Christopher Claxton Stevens
- Eighteenth Century Fancy Chairs from High Wycombe, John Boram
- Welsh Cradles, Margaret Roberts
- English West Country Tables and Forms, Gabriel Olive
- A Lake District Cupboard, Noel Riley
- Frame Making in Edinburgh 1790-1830, Laura Houliston
- Irish Eighteenth-Century Looking Glasses, Nessa Roche
- David Hughes 1847-1923, Cabinet Maker and Ship Carver of Liverpool,
M. K. Stammers
- Malaysian Furniture, Daniel Maudlin
- James Honey: A Wright from Perth in Colonial Williamsburg, L. W.
S. Petznick
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1998
The 1998 Journal concentrated on the work of Gillow's of Lancaster
and included the following articles:
- Gillow at Denton Hall, Yorkshire, Christopher Gilbert
- The Jamaica Trade: Gillow and the Use of Mahogany in the Eighteenth
Century, Adam Bowett
- Makers Labels and Stamps Used on Gillow and Waring & Gillow Furniture
1770-1960, Susan Stuart
- Gillow Furnishings and the Tatton Park Library, 1811, John Hardy
- Eighteenth Century Gillow Furniture Discovered at Tatton Park, Susan
Stuart
- Gillow in Scotland 1770-1830, David Jones and Jacqueline
Urquahart
- A Group of Seat Furniture Stamped RE, Christopher Claxton Stevens
- A Select Bibliography of Books and Articles on Furniture Published
Between July 1994 and December 1997, Ivan Sparkes
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Library writing table made by Gillows
in 1778 for Sir James Ibbetson, Denton Hall, now at Judges' Lodgings Museum,
Lancaster.
Sotheby's

Designs for a library table from Thomas
Chippendale's Director, 1754, pl. lvi.
The Chippendale Society
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Mahogany Secretaire and bookcase by Bowen, Lammas Street,
Carmarthen, c. 1795.
Catherine Rivers
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1997
- Mr Bowen's Secretaire and Bookcase: A Labelled Carmarthen Piece, c.
1795, Luke Millar
- Furniture Associated with Robert Burns, David Jones
- Scottish Masonic Furniture, Stephen Jackson
- The Salisbury Mayoral Chair of 1795, Nicola McLaughlin
- Arthur Foley: A Nineteenth-Century Furniture Manufacturer in Salisbury,
Robin Jones
- Wiltshire Windsors, Gabriel Olive
- A Painted Elmwood Chest from North Somerset, John Weallans
- Tudor Furniture from the Mary Rose, David Knell
- Canopied Cupboards of the Aire and Calder Valleys, West Yorkshire,
Peter H. Thornborrow.
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1996
- Irish Vernacular Furniture: Inventories and Illustrations in Interdisciplinary
Methodology, Claudia Kinmonth
- Nineteenth Century Carved Ebony Furniture from Sri Lanka: Methods
of Interpretation, Robin Jones
- Problems in Identifying Early Australian Colonial Furniture, Rebecca
Daniels
- 'Wonderful Walker': Portrait of an Eighteenth Century Cumbrian Furniture
Maker, Susan Stuart
- The Notebook of John Davies, Cabinet Maker, Carmarthen, 1844-55, Luke
Millar
- Scottish Chair Making: The Case of Francis East & Co. and East
Brothers, Dundee, David Jones
- Furniture Designs from New Zealand: The Dunedin Iron and Woodware
Company's Illustrated Catalogue, Rebecca Rhodes
- A Hamilton Hearth, David Jones
- Baking Oatcake, Yorkshire, John Boram.
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1995
- Chairmaking at Low Cringles in Yorkshire, Christopher Gilbert
- Eskdale Chairs, Susan Stuart & David Jones
- Trading Networks of The Chiltern Chairmakers, John Boram
- Chairmakers and Apprentices: Reminiscences of Working Conditions and
Traditions in High Wycombe, Ivan Sparkes
- Some Windsor Chairs at Trinity House, Newcastle upon Tyne, Thomas
Faulkner
- Darvel Chairs, David Jones
- Gillow's 'Neat and Strong Windsor Chairs' for Home and Export in the
Eighteenth Century, Susan Stuart
- Sussex Chairs, Janet Pennington
- Oak Chairs from Ulster, Fionnuala Carragher
- The Blackstone Chair, Stephen Jackson
- The Leeds Cabinet and Chair-Makers Book of Prices (1791), A Re-print
of the Chair-Making Specifications
- The Preston Cabinet and Chair-Makers Book of Prices (1802), A Re-print
of the Chair-Making Specifications
- The Whitehaven Book of Prices (1810)
- A Select Bibliography of Books and Articles on Furniture, Published
between July 1990 and June 1994, Ivan Sparkes.
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Oak Chair, Ballymoney, Co. Antrim
UFTM collection 514, 1994

Detail of Cresting Rail
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1994
- "A Brute and Beastly Shire?" Dated Furniture in Lincolnshire,
Anthony Wells-Cole
- The Glastonbury Chair, Gabriel Olive
- Preaching Tents, David Jones
- Three Masonic Chairs at Minerva Lodge, Ashton-under-Lyne, Christopher
Gilbert
- The Vigani Specimen Cabinet by John Austin, a Cambridge Joiner, Adam
Bowett
- Samuel Peat, a Chichester Cabinet Maker, Margaret Ponsonby
- "25th December 1889, Christmas Day Lost", Furniture Making
in Meirionydd, Richard Bebb
- A Note on Furniture Making in Rural Fife, John Frew
- Furniture Making in County Clare: The O'Halloran Brothers, Dabheoc
Rynne
- A Common Chair from West Wales, Luke Millar
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Dressing Table by John Elliot, Leicester & Philadelphia,
1730-50, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia USA.
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1993
- An Anthology of Regional Furniture with Maker's Identification
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1992
- The Laburnum Tradition in Scotland, David Jones
- At the Sign of the Pelican, Sebastian Pryke
- A History of Collecting Vernacular Furniture in Scotland, Lindsay
Macbeth
- Highland Dressers and the Process of Innovation, R. Ross Noble
- Driftwood Furniture from Shetland, David Learmont
- Irish Cradles: An Introductory Look, Fionnuala Carragher
- Carved Oak Furniture from Tudor Wales, Richard Bebb
- Some Plain Oak Farmhouse Chests from South Wales, Luke Millar
- The Gower Coffor Bach, Philip M. Havard
- The Welston Coffer, Philip M. Havard
- A Vale of Glamorgan Chair, Luke Millar
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WalnutCradle, Newtownards and Bangor, Co. Down, UTFM
Collection 955. 1965
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Press Cupboard made for Thomas & Ellen Meller,
probably Sheffield,1681, Sotheby's
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1991
- Late Georgian Wooden-Bottomed Chairs in South Wales, Luke Millar
- Furniture Terminology in Post Medieval Middle-Class Inventories, Victor
Chinnery
- Parts and Materials: A Sawmill in the 1820's, Sarah Medlam
- Some East Anglian Chests, Penny Rumble
- Sixteenth-Century Furniture in the Castle Dairy, Kendal, Susan
Bourne and Susan Stuart
- The Amos Catton Pattern Book, Christopher Gilbert
- The Wheelers of Arncroach: A Family of Furniture Makers in Fife, Lindsay
Macbeth
- Box Beds in Eastern Scotland, David Jones
- Furnishing the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow Style, 1809, Celine Blair
and David Jones
- English Newspaper Advertisements as a Source of Furniture History,
John Stabler
- A Labelled Liverpool Clock Case, Christopher Gilbert
- An American Tavern Table, Gerald W.R. Ward
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1990
- Oak Furniture in Norfolk, Anthony Wells-Cole
- The Board-Seated Turned Chairs Project, Robert F. Trent
- West Country Chests, Coffers And Boxes, Gabriel Olive
- A Sixteenth-Century Oak Cupboard at the University of St Andrews,
David Jones
- The Extraordinary Billhead of Francis Brodie, Sebastian Pryke
- An Early Cabinet Maker's Club in Belfast and their Book of Prices,
1822, David Jones
- A Painted Corner Cupboard from Hanley, Staffordshire, 1827, Bernard
D. Cotton
- Furniture at Corfe Castle, Gabriel Olive
- Survival or Revival? The Problems of the Continuation of Traditional
Furniture Making into the Twentieth Century, Nicholas Moore
- A Signed Welsh Chest of Drawers, Donald Blakeley
- A Salop Friendly Society Membership Card, Simon Jervis
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Corner Cupboard by Geoge Boulton, Hanley Staffordshire,1827,
Dr. B. D. Cotton.
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1989
- Irish Vernacular Furniture, Bernard D. Cotton
- Scottish Cabinet Maker's Price Books, 1805-1825, David Jones
- Dressers in the West Country, Gabriel Olive
- A Study of the Edinburgh Furnishing Trade taken from Contemporary
Press Notices, 1708-1790, Sebastian Pryke
- Owen Fitzpatrick, a Birkenhead Cabinet Maker 'In Ordinary', John
Boram
- A Labelled Whitehaven Cabinet, Christopher Gilbert
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Design from an anonymous English trade catalogue,
c. 1905, Pratt collection,Temple Newsam House, Leeds
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1988
- The Cupboard of Rychard and Margerye Churche, Susan Bourne
- 'A Last Outpost of the Known World': Vernacular Furniture in Tudor
and Stuart Cornwall, Anthony Wells-Cole
- Prices for Workmen in Lancaster - the Earliest Surviving Cabinet Makers'
Price List, Susan E. Stuart
- Furniture by Local Makers at Doncaster Mansion House, Christopher
Gilbert
- Unconventional Windsor's from the Cotswolds, Bernard D. Cotton
- An Alehouse Inventory of 1765, Luke Millar
- Scotch Chests, David Jones
- Shadford, Shirley and the Caistor Workshop, Bernard D. Cotton
- 'Common' Chairs from the Norwich Chair Makers' price Book of 1801,
Gerry Cotton
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1987
- Regional Furniture Studies in the late 18th and 19th-century Traditions:
An Introduction to Research Methods, Bernard D. Cotton
- Oak Furniture and the Towneley Family of Lancashire, Susan Bourne
- A Painted Bed dated 1724, Anthony Wells-Cole
- The Chairs of Sutherland and Caithness: A Northern Tradition in Highland
Chair-making? R. Ross Noble
- Furniture in Steyning, a Sussex Parish, 1587-1707: A Study of Documentary
Sources, Janet Pennington and Joyce Sleight
- 'To a Mahogany Case - the Best Sort': Influences on the design of
18th-century North Lancashire Clock Cases, Susan Stuart
- Workhouse Furniture, Christopher Gilbert
- A Chester Cabinet Maker's Specification Book, Nicholas Moore
- Connecticut Plain High-Style Seating of the 18th-century, Robert
F. Trent
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Joined chair with loose leather seat. Saybrook Connecticut,
1740-70. The Connecticut Historical Society.
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