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Word: highboy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine old house fronts on three sides, and the brick façade of an inn from Red Lion, Del. on the fourth. Even the elevators were finished in antique American paneling. Among the prize exhibits: a set of silver tankards made by Paul Revere, an 18th Century Philadelphia highboy for which Du Pont paid a reported $44,000, and paintings by John Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Benjamin West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: No. I Antiquer | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

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