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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 264361, member: 5066&quot;]Thanks! but i now argue, it&#039;s not a connecticut chest. I took this chest to a museum conservator to get his opinion on it and after i gave him the seymour/connecticut connection, he advised no, he didn&#039;t think so. He got a copy out of Dean Fales book &quot;American Painted Furniture 1660-1880&quot; and BAM, i realized he was right. At the turn of the 17th-18th century, the carving of pilgrim days was replaced by paint as the main decoration of furniture. In Conn, it is mostly flowers, vines and the like but in Mass, particularly hadley, it was &quot;gloriously naive geometric painting&quot;, almost a dart board type decoration. A famous example is the SW chest below[ATTACH=full]82987[/ATTACH]</p><p>I am not unhappy about it, just sayin it ain&#039;t a conn chest![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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