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

ANTIQUEING AHEAD

By

Eben S. Twitchett, B.B.S., F.A.A.P.A., etc.