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The Collector’s Whatnot

by Booth Tarkington

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List of Plates and Other Illustrations

Rear View of the Statue of Professor Kilgallen in Floral Park City, Florida Frontispiece
Plate I: Old Dutch Ovenside Chair with the Rare Pretzel Back 4
Pair of Wonderful Old French Statuettes now the Property of Dr. Twitchett 10
Plate II: Magnificent Old Flat-Front Early New Jersey Sideboard discovered by Professor Kilgallen in an Obscure Part of Newark 18
Plate III: From Professor Kilgallen’s Collection of Beautiful Old Wood-Carvings: Figure of Pocahontas believed to be the Work of John Alden 26
Old New England Print of the First Meeting of the American Academy for the Popularization of Antiquities 32
Statue erected to Professor Kilgallen in Floral Park City, Florida, by Grateful Citizens of that Community 42
Plate IV: Priceless Bit of Old Staffordshire Ware (a Paper-Weight) Collected by Professor Kilgallen 50
Plate V: Rare Bit of Old Worcestershire Ware 58
Dr. Twitchett and Mrs. Augustula Thomas’s Husband (Mr. Thomas) wearing the Insignia of Full Members of the American Academy for the Popularization of Antiquities 64
The Glass Perfect 68
Plate VI: Old Skipworth Ware: Dog on Paper-Weight 74
Plate VII: Professor Kilgallen’s Magnificent Collection of Early American Utensils, all Hand-wrought, and some Obtained from the Descendants of the Families in which the Articles had been handed down from Father to Son 80
Plate VIII: Colonial Trigle-Stool, discovered in a New Hampshire Woodshed, and purchased for a Mere Song by Professor Kilgallen 86
Plate IX: Cologne Cathedral as it is To-day 94
Plate X: New Design for Cologne Cathedral 94
Plate XI: Colonial Kitchen Sink from the Old Palaver Thompson Mansion in Haverhill 102
Plate XII: Sampler in the Possession of Professor Kilgallen’s Family 110
The Porte-Chapeaux of Noisette à Cheval: “Rising in the night, trouble over the yearning of the bassines to be reunited to their original source”124
“He knew the old musician suffered from headaches,” etc.126
The Becket (Actual Size)128
Profile View of the Porte-Chapeaux of Noisette à Cheval Reconstructed and in Use 130
Reception held by the American Academy for the Popularization of Antiquities on the Lawn before the Academy’s Building at the San Francisco Exposition 136
Old Virginia Four-Poster inlaid with Mahogany 144

ANTIQUEING AHEAD

By

Eben S. Twitchett

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