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Article: Butler identity invokes a mystery
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- December 2, 2001
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Butler identity invokes a mystery
By RALPH AND TERRY KOVEL
Cowles Syndicate
Sunday, December 2, 2001
Few of us have a butler today, but in the 18th and 19th centuries,
every well-to-do family had a large house, several maids, a cook and
a butler.
Furniture and serving pieces used primarily by the butler were
often identified by name. The "butler's cabinet" was a chest of
drawers with a top that rolled back to reveal stored utensils. It was
a form used from about 1780 to the 1830s.
The "butler's sideboard" was a small sideboard that had a center
drawer fitted as a desk, so the butler had an office in the dining
room when the family was not at dinner. Another piece, the "butler's ...
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