No. 13. DOUBLE GRAMMAR SCHOOL DESK AND TWO CHAIRS. Nos. 12 and 13, represents a style of desk for one or two pupils, used in the grammar schools of Boston. The desk is 16 inches wide and 24 inches long for one, and 48 inches for two pupils. The desk is made firm by an iron brace, one end of which is screwed to the bottom of the desk, and the other to the iron standard. Along the back edge of the top of the desk is a hollow to receive pens, pencil, &c.; ink-pot or well is inserted with a lead or metallic cover. No. 14. SINGLE DESK WITH FALL TO LIFT AND CHAIR FOR HIGH SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIRO. No. 15. DOUBLE DESK AND TWO CHAIRS FOR TWO SCHOLARS FOR HIGH SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES. No. 16. SINGLE DESK AND CHAIR FOR YOUNG LADIES' SEMINARIES. No. 17. SINGLE DESK AND CHAIR FOR YOUNG LADIES' SEMINARIES. Nos. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, present some modifications in the size, style, and finish of the desk. The top of the desk is covered with cloth, a portfolio with a clasp to keep it together, for drawings; an improved hinge; an improved metallic box with cover to receive a glass ink well, (see Fig. 22,) and the level portion of the top hollowed out to receive pens and pencil. Desks and chairs of this pattern have been manufactured for the Spingler Institute, Union Park, New York, and the City Normal School, Boston, and other schools of a higher character. The wood work of these and the other patterns are made of cherry, black-walnut or mahogany, according to order. No. 19. DOUBLE DESK AND TWO CHAIRS FOR YOUNG LADIES' SEMINARIES. No. 21 represents a style of Drawing Desk, designed and manufactured for the Lowell Institute. The bottom of the desk is made of iron in a neat tripod form, with a hollow pillar inserted, in which is a shaft to raise and fall the desk at pleasure, that supports the top of the Drawing Table, and is confined to the same by hinges; with a circle affixed to the under side of the top and passing through the center of the shaft, which, by a set of screws, enables the person using the same, to raise the desk to any height or angle required. Attached to the underside is a draw for the drawing instruments, made to draw out on either side. |