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Hence, the furniture of Frothingham to be examined is placed in the order of stylistic sequence for simplicity, with no intention of implying dates, early or late. 206 There are minor concessions to the new neoclassicism, in the choice of plain bail handles and a slight change of proportion and lightening of the moldings of the top, but the answer to dating furniture probably lies in the taste of the man who commissioned it, not in the taste of the cabinetmaker. 49) is dated 1765, for instance, and a second labelled three-shell chest, now in the State Department, is dated 1792. His three-shell chest in the Metropolitan Museum (fig. The example of John Townsend’s labelled furniture gives fair warning to all who would date furniture purely on the basis of style, since his work includes pieces in the styles of the mid-century dated in the 1790s. His name appears in chalk on the bottom of the long drawer in the lower section. 155) may have been owned by Nathaniel Richards ( 1712–1788), an innholder and saddler of Roxbury. (The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.) This chest and matching dressing table ( fig. Made by Benjamin Frothingham (signature in chalk), Charlestown, c. 205 His wife was Mary Deland by whom he had seven children, one of whom, Benjamin (born 1774), followed the family trade.ġ54. The cabinetmaker was also a member of the Society of the Cincinnati. He retained the title of “Major” all his life, and it has often been noted that George Washington visited Frothingham, “whom he had known in the army,” in 1789 in Charlestown.
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He was a member of Captain Gridley’s militia from 1754 and served in the Revolution becoming a major by war’s end. 204 At the time of the Revolution, his shop in Walker Street was one of twenty-nine cabinetmakers’ establishments which were destroyed when the town of Charlestown was burned by the British on June 17, 1775. In 1756, our Benjamin Frothingham bought a parcel of land in Charlestown where he seems to have been established from at least 1754 until his death in 1809. The father had a shop in Milk Street, recorded to have burned in the great fire of March 20, 1760, and presumably the younger Benjamin was trained in that shop. The signed furniture of Benjamin Frothingham is, therefore, worth considering as giving the broadest view of a typical workshop of the Boston region in the eighteenth century.īenjamin Frothingham (Ap– August 19, 1809) was the son of the joiner Benjamin Frothingham (1708–1765) of Boston. Among the many famous cabinetmakers of Boston, like John Cogswell, George Bright, and Ebenezer Hartshorne, sometimes only one or two pieces have retained signatures or maker’s marks, while in the case of Alexander Edwards, who paid as high a tax as Bright, not a single example is known. William Savery of Philadelphia, John Townsend of Newport, and Benjamin Frothingham of Charlestown are three major exceptions in the eighteenth century, each having liberally labelled his furniture, while others as competent did not seem to do so. SO few American cabinetmakers have left behind a broad variety of signed work that the picture of normal daily production cannot be easily examined by the student. Business continued by Ralph Edgar Cole trading as F W Cole.RICHARD H. Gold & silver chain maker, Vyse Street, Birminghamįrank William Cole died in 1910. (image courtesy of Frederick William Bauer Pencil Case Works, Great Hampton Street, BirminghamĪ similar London & Chester mark for this period registered by Frederick Wich, leather goods manufacturer, Great Titchfield Street, London Snow & Ashworth (Frank Rowland Snow & Robert Ashworth)Ĭambridge Crescent, Harrogate, Yorkshire Frederick StoneĬigarette holder & case, fruit knife, letter opener, napkin clip, napkin ring, needle case, pencil, pencil holder, thimble, tooth pick Manchester & New Bond St, London 1939 (or 1914) Whip mounter, Green Street, Doriton, Birmingham later (1958) Lombard Street, Birminghamįritz Petitpierre trading as Petitpierre & Co, watch makers, Holborn Viaduct, London F Pīox, medal, mustard, napkin ring, tea service, toast rack, trophy cupīishopsgate Street, Birmingham Florence Stern The Compendium of Chester Gold & Silver Marks 1570 to 1962, Antique Collectors' Club, 2004 to "F Mordan & Co ?", Jewellers, Albion Works, City Road, London EC, but movement in this watch case marked "Made in Switzerland for F Meeks & Co, Birmingham".īrooch, caddy spoon, clan badge, kilt pin, scarf ring, swagger stick pommel Spencer Street, Birmingham 1867.1877, 1896Īttributed in the Chester Compendium Ridgway, Maurice H. Silver Makers' Marks - Birmingham Assay Office (F)į/F& FA FB FC FD FE FF FG FH FI FJ FK FL FM FN FO FP FQ FR FS FT FU FV FW FX FY FZ FM Markīox, card case, spectacle case, vesta, vinaigrette