Photos © David B. Ring
Left: This is the first of two octagonal end tables (this one 19" x 19" x 30") that were in the Harnish house at 61 Vernon Drive until I inherited them. It is stamped on the bottom E. W. Miller 1950. (The matching tabletop is below, left.) Right: The other octagonal end table from the Harnish house (17" x 17" x 30"). Stamped E. W. Miller 1952.

Photos © David B. Ring
Left: This is the top of the first of two octagonal end tables (this one 19" x 19" x 30") that were in the Harnish house at 61 Vernon Drive until I inherited them. It is stamped on the bottom E. W. Miller 1950. Right: a corner cupboard I'm also pretty sure was made by E. W. Miller. If there's a stamp, it must be on the back where I can't see it (not on the bottom -- I looked with a mirror). From the Harnish back bedroom.

Photos © David B. Ring
Left: octagonal coffee table (32" long x 21" deep x 17" high) that my grandfather made. On the top is a pane of glass that fits into a small raised rim. On the bottom is stamped, in block letters, E. W. Miller 1950. This table was in my mom's possession as early as I can remember, and was likely a gift to her and my father, Fred Miller, before or around the time of my birth in 1951. Right: inlaid wood tabletop for octagonal coffee table. I wish I knew enough to recognize all the woods used in these pieces (or that Grandpa Miller had put a crib sheet on the bottom).

Photos © David B. Ring
Left: My own pine and mahogany Jetan board made in junior high wood shop (offered not as competition but comic relief!); Jetan is Edgar Rice Burroughs's Martian chess, played on a 10 x 10 board, sometimes with living pieces. Right: oak Arts and Craft style desk (28" x 54" x 30" high) made by Jay Dewey Harnish as a high school project (circa 1916), and still gainfully employed as a computer desk. For 60 years, it lived in the back bedroom of the Harnish home, where Dewey spent two years after World War I recovering from mustard gas and tuberculosis.