Announcements
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The Society of American Period Furniture Makers (SAPFM) has announced that Charles (Chuck) Bender of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania is the recipient of the 2022 Cartouche Award.
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The MESDA Journal(www.mesdajournal.org) has published groundbreaking research on early southern decorative arts and material culture since 1975. Articles in the MESDA Journal are available free of charge through its website, as are digital versions of past issues published over the last forty-three years.