Original vintage magazine article titled THE IMPORTANCE OF MANTELS by Lee McCann. Photographs from Edwin Jackson Todhunter and Wm H. Jackson Company. Features an example of Flaxman's art removed from the London mansion of the Marrquis of Blandford, early Franklin stove, early Victorian carving, from the old Schermerhorn mansion in New York City, and much more.  Old 1929 original country home article.   3 pages..