Francis Trumble was an 18th-century chair and

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. Trumble produced a variety of "fine furniture" in the Queen Anne, Chippendale and Federal styles.John Kassa
The book of American Windsor furniture
styles and technologies page 30 He also manufactured Windsor chairs that are believed to be the ones used at

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, and depicted in paintings of the signing of the

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.Digging in the City of Brotherly Love
stories from Philadelphia archaeology By Rebecca Yamin page 145 He made them in seven styles and is credited as one of the craftsmen who establish the industry producing the chairs. Tumble occupied a shop on the " John Stocker property" on Front Street from 1745 until his death in 1791. A privy pit has been excavated on the site uncovering iron gouges,

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s, gravers, an iron

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, iron

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s, and handles of wood and bone.John L. Cotter, Daniel G. Roberts, Michael Parrington
The buried past
an archaeological history of Philadelphia A Barra Foundation book University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992 . 524 pages, page 161

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Trumble, Francis American cabinetmakers 1791 deaths Year of birth unknown

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