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NEW YORK – The story of how Evinrude revolutionized the boating industry in the early 1900s owes everything to geography and a hankering for ice cream. Ole Evinrude, who moved to Wisconsin as a child when his family immigrated from Norway, grew up fascinated with mechanics. He began building small internal combustion engines for land […]

John Swisegood Inlaid Walnut Corner Cupboard, $41,250 HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. – John Swisegood (1796-death date unknown) lived in the Zink family’s log cabin constructed by John Jacob Zink (1788-1866) while building this inlaid walnut corner cupboard from timber milled on the farm around 1814. The cupboard was bequeathed to John Jacob’s son, who went by the […]

NEW YORK — A sideboard is a piece of furniture that has a flat top and drawers in which to store linens or dining ware, but it can be so much more than that. Elite Mid-century Modern artisans seized upon the sideboard’s potential and transformed this dining room workhorse into a work of art.