Thursday, March 25, 1915 Paper: Ann Arbor News (Ann Arbor, MI)
Some of Clements Collection from A Windsor Handbook
Bow-back Arm Windsor
Condition: Fine and apparently original.
Date: Early. Occurrence: Extremely rare.
Merit: Very high for its type. The turnings are very good; possibly not so massive as the very earliest, but closely approaching them. The stretchers are the earliest sort. The knuckle is very handsomely carved. The seat is 84 inches high in front. The back 44 inches high. Peculiar in the feature of stopping the arms on the bow and having no arm rail to run around the chair. This of course adds to comfort by affording the long spring of the back spindles as in the side chair. The feature is shown in several instances in this book on fan-back arm chairs, but this is a rare feature in the bow back with arm and no arm rail. The method of construction, however, is not secure. The junction of bow and arm must be weak unless as elsewhere in this book the bow is enlarged to receive the arm. One also feels that nine back spindles instead of seven would materially enhance the chair's merit, for in that case the spindles could have been a little lighter. The arms also lack the grace of a ramp, and are almost straight.
Served as Selectman 1909 in Newfields. His antique shop was located at his residence. Clement C Littlefield m. Etta Dudley d.of S. Gunnison Dudley Samuel Littlefield and Olive Clark
Joseph Littlefield and Rebecca Edes. Elisha Littlefield and Phoebe Furbush M 2nd Abigail Folsom. David Littlefield and Sarah Butland M 2nd Sarah Sawyer. David Littlefield and Mary Hill.
Francis Littlefield and Meribah Wardwell.
Sunday, September 16, 1956 Paper: Boston Herald (Boston, MA)
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