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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;silverthwait, post: 866693, member: 103&quot;]Used to be called a deacon&#039;s bench, supposedly the prayer books got stored under the seat between use in church.&nbsp; Yours certainly could have been used in a place of worship, given its elaborateness, but there is no religious symbolism in all that ornateness. </p><p><br /></p><p>However the general outlines of same were used on farms, in ordinary homes to hold boots in the hallway, as well as the more ostentacious display in the home of Mr, and Mrs. Gotrocks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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