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These turnings are so impressive, but my favorite remains the Currier Gallery cupboard. I was extremely annoyed that when the Currier commissioned a study of the cupboard from Mussey Associates, they used our notes line-for-line without citing them. I also pointed out in their preliminary report that they had flipped the photo of the cupboard side-to-side. 95% of their "new" conclusions came from our notes. The only things they found were by either Xray or intrusive disassembly, which we could not do. The other thing we did not do was get paid.

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Sorry, that's Jane Nylander. You can see a spectacular result of a restoration executed using information provided by all three authors, Alan Miller, Peter Follansbee, and me, in the 2001 issue of American Furniture. That cupboard was in the Godfrey Collection in Milwaukee, now at Chipstone Foundation.

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