This is Hammacher Schlemmer's nongadget catalogue, teeming with beautiful furnishings, rugs and clothing, much of it Arts and Crafts-inspired.

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Thaw shay mahogany gas-pipes is a venerable native witticism. It is the facetious Gaelic sally of a person without Gaelic. Suitably mouthed, it sounds frightfully Irish. Leaguers resent it as a sneer.

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