Show OLDEST CHAIR IN AMERI AMERICA A I Hanover Pa lost the oldest and what Is believed to be the most remarkable remarkable remarkable re re- re- re piece of furniture in America Ameri Ameri- ca when the famous Dingley Bingley armchair which has seen five centuries was expressed to Hagerstown Md the home of Joseph Parker Bingley who inherited it by the will of his father the late John Jackson Bingley Dingley of Hanover Han Han- over Kept Kelt as an heirloom the ancient ancient ancient an an- chair has been passed down from father to son for many generations J J J. J Edward Bingley of Baltimore Md is heir apparent to the coveted relic The chair is a massive piece of work made In Yorkshire England In 1430 It represents the type of or architecture architecture architecture ar ar- popular in those days English oak Inlaid with various kinds of wood was used in Its construction The back Is handsomely carved and at the top figures of birds are engrav engrave ed The joints are mortised and held together with wooden pegs two Sixty-two years before Columbus discovered America this chair was built and it r remained in the town of Dingley Bingley named from the ancestors of the present owner during the reign of twenty English monarchs from Henry Henry Hen Hen- ry VI to Victoria After brief stay at Leeds it was taken to Manchester In 1856 the chair was brought to this country on the ship Mary Hale and was landed at Baltimore In the Civil war the chair was in Richmond Va where the owner temporarily left It In the care of a friend while he escaped escaped es es- es to the north Subsequently it was sent to Watertown N. N Y Y and in 1894 was brought to Hanover |