Furniture

Did you know this picture is of furniture? It is.

It is printing furniture, used to help set the type in the chase.  Then the chase is put into the printing press and pages are printed.  The furniture is packed in tight around the type so it doesn't fall out.

I found the following story in Chapter 11 of the book Church History in the Fullness of Times.  I have heard this story for years and just assumed they meant the chairs and tables:

"The meeting quickly turned into a mob that decided to destroy the printing office and the press. They surrounded the printing office and residence of W. W. Phelps, threw the furniture into the street and garden, broke the press, scattered the type, and destroyed nearly all the printed work, including most of the unbound sheets of the Book of Commandments."

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You learn something new every day!