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High
on a sylvan hill with the Green Mountains to the west and
the Connecticut River Valley on the east sits Sylvan Hill
Antiques in the historic village of Grafton, Vermont. From
the village, one drives down a country lane bordered by a
clear running stream and up a hemlock-shrouded hill to open
meadows, landscaped herbaceous gardens and an English Antiques
Shop.
Established in 1991, Sylvan Hill Antiques specializes in English
vernacular furniture and accessories. Vernacular furniture,
often referred to as "country furniture" is simply
items of ordinary life used, cared for and handed down in
families for centuries. Furniture made not for the great houses
of the wealthy but for ordinary people, rural and urban. |
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Our
inventory contains examples of most household furniture of
the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries in oak, elm, yew and
fruit woods. As expected of furniture used daily, some repairs
and restorations have been made over the years. However, patination
acquired from use, wax, dust, etc. has created a finish on
these simple pieces which is truly beautiful.
We are open "by chance" or by appointment daily
from 10:00 to 5:00. A call ahead is always advisable - especially
in winter. |
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Grafton is a town of 600, smaller than it was in a long-ago
heyday of mills, quarries and sheep farms. ... and has preserved
dozens of its lovely old buildings, the town, set in an alpine
valley, still looks like a Currier & Ives print.
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