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It was the "Roaring Twenties" the era of jazz, riches, new inventions and bright optimism. Then, on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the stock market crashed, triggering the Great Depression -- the worst economic collapse in the history of the modern industrial world, lasting from the end of 1929 until the early 1940s. >>>
Butterfly tables are to antiques as golden tiger crow orchids are to flowers. For early American furniture and folk art collectors, the tiny little drop leave table with "splayed" outreaching frieze and legs and box stretchers to strengthen the base are akin to photographing a jet black Mitchell's Satyr Northeastern Indiana butterfly if you are a butterfly collector.
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