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CUTTER, SINGLE SEAT
19th Century square or piano box style.
Body: All wood construction, hardwood framing, gently curved sides and dash. Overall length: 68"
Seats: 42" wide, upholstered in velvet-like fabric, tuft & buttoned.
Brass trim on runners, brass rein rails.
Steel runners have replaceable skid shoes.
Decoratively pin-striped in gold; shaves included.
Single Seat Cutter with Matching Shaves $1,795.00
A Point of interest:
"The horsedrawn vehicle is an excellent example of a device which was developed and improved by Americans. As traffic in America began to shift from rivers to roads in the mid 1800's. American carriage manufactures, in order to economize horse power, invented machines that shaped tough and springy native woods--whitewood from the tulip tree, and hickory--into the lightest of durable carriages
"The spidery wheels that frightened Europeans withstood our rough roads, thanks to precisely machine spokes fitted into precisely drilled hub mortises all enclosed in steel tires set by steam power.
"This extraordinary technical ability tempted some designers to be genteel to the point of flossiness in concocting family coaches that the Smiths purchased to outdo the Joneses, but the strictly practical buckboards, buggies and surreys, on the other hand, are designed with a spareness as elegant as that which characterizes Shaker furniture.
"Such simplicity fits today's belief that less is more." Paul Downing, New York, 1969 |
Price: Inquire + S&H
Quantity: 1
In stock: Yes
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