Excerpt from A Small Choice Collection of English, American and French Furniture, Old Glass, Table and Decorative Porcelains, Other Decorative Objects, Fine Oriental Rugs, Property of Mrs. Robert Maclay, New York, Sold by Her Order: Public Sale, January 18 at Two Forty-Five Mrs. Maclay's collection will make an especial appeal to those whose tastes incline toward the miniature in objects for the home; they will find here a wide range of intriguing petits meubles of an uncommon quality. English, French, and American furniture of the eighteenth century is the owner's principal choice, although her col lection may be said to conform to no rigid classification, embracing as it does a wide range of other objects, such as English, Irish, and American glass, Paris, Saxe, and English porcelains, and choice Oriental rugs (mainly of the scatter sizes), besides a number of charming objects of Swiss, Netherlandish, and Italian provenance, which give the collection a decided Continental flavor. Mrs. Maclay, a resident of New York since childhood, removed some years ago to Europe where she made her home at Geneva, taking with her her collection of furnishings and art objects. In this connection, an amusing episode incidental to the shipment of the furniture is perhaps worth retelling here. It concerns the Friesland painted and carved child's carriage [number which, to Mrs. Maclay's great consternation was consigned to her in care of the League of Nations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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