Henry Wood Erving
who early discerned that the strength and beauty of pilgrim furniture was an expression of pilgrim character 'T HE interest in native wood early furniture is of recent growth. Many persons who formerly collected Sheraton types have gone farther back through the Hepplewhite period, through the Chippendale, to the Dutch period, and of late not a few persons collected only Americana, by which term, applied to furniture, is meant not merely furniture made in America, but made also of native woods....