signed twice Hadley 1936 Hepplewhite dresser & mirror Hadley worked in Reading, PA on North 9th Street and made custom hand crafted furniture to order for many of the wealthy and important citizens of Berks County, PA. This chest and mirror descended in the family of a Judge named Hess. We acquired it many years ago and now need room. This makers furniture has brought high prices at local auctions. We will offer it at 1/2 of what a similar one sold for in 1999 without mirror.

Clifton O. Hadley was the 23rd American to get a pilot's license. He built and flew a plane in 1909, just six years after the Wright brothers' flight.

Hadley's plane had no wing flaps. He turned it by bending -- or warping -- the wings as the early Wright flyers did, and in 1909 he flew that plane up the frozen Hudson River to Tarrytown, N.Y.

In 1924, Hadley moved to Berks and opened a furniture business on North Ninth Street but continued flying. He became the area's first airmail pilot.

He later was the aeronautical adviser to the Reading Municipal Airport Commission and helped lay out the airport.

Hadley built many racing and sailing aircraft, as well as a triplane that was later featured by Time-Life books in 1968....

Local pick up only
Circa: 1936
Condition: perfect
Size: 39 wd X 38 ht 36 X 37 mirror
Country of Origin: US  

oak arts & crafts hat rack with motto gate form original finish with 5 pegs for hanging hat/coat and 2 iron rings to hang on wall, hammered head nails, Stanley hinges, motto says;
May the hinges of friendship never grow rusty.
very fine condition showing little use
Circa: 1910
Condition: very fine
Size: 20inch ht X 29inch wd
Country of Origin: US