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Francis Trumble was an 18th-century chair and
cabinetmaker
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in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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.
Trumble produced a variety of "fine furniture" in the
Queen Anne,
Chippendale and
Federal
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styles.
[John Kassa]
The book of American Windsor furniture
styles and technologies page 30 He also manufactured
Windsor chair
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s that are believed to be the ones used at
Independence Hall
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by the
Second Continental Congress
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, and depicted in paintings of the signing of the
Declaration of Independence
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.
[Digging in the City of Brotherly Love](_blank)
stories from Philadelphia archaeology By Rebecca Yamin page 145 He made them in seven styles and is credited as one of the craftsmen who establish the industry producing the chairs.
Tumble occupied a shop on the "
John Stocker property" on Front Street from 1745 until his death in 1791. A
privy
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* Privy mark, a small mark in the design of a coin
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pit has been excavated on the site uncovering iron
gouges,
chisel
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s,
gravers, an iron
rasp
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, iron
spikes
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,
nail
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* Nail (beak), a plate of hard horny tissue at the tip ...
s, and handles of wood and bone.
[John L. Cotter, Daniel G. Roberts, Michael Parrington]
The buried past
an archaeological history of Philadelphia A Barra Foundation book University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992 . 524 pages, page 161
See also
*
Windsor furniture
Windsor may refer to:
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*Windsor, New South Wales
** Municipality of Windsor, a former local government area
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References
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American cabinetmakers
1791 deaths
Year of birth unknown