Regency giltwood chair

This Regency giltwood chair may have been one of the largest hearing aids ever built, but it was intended to serve the same purpose as the smallest, mobile device: disguising the disablity and sparing the dignity of the listener.


During the first half of the 19th century the aurists and acoustic instrument makers F.C. Rein &…

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