A Small Collection of Interesting Items
Each of the pictures are antique items from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of American Decorative Arts. Identify the items. The title is an acrostic for ASCII and the values of the items mentioned in the flavortext are the sums of the ASCII values of the characters the names (preserving case and including spaces and punctuation). After you calculated the prices, the cents portion of each item should be treated as an ASCII letter.
Image | Item Name | Value | Letter |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Oval Platter | 11.66 | B |
2 | Jacquard-woven Picture | 21.79 | O |
3 | Embroidered Sampler | 18.78 | N |
4 | Drop-leaf Table | 13.78 | N |
5 | Whiskey Mug | 10.69 | E |
6 | Crib | 3.84 | T |
7 | Scroll flask | 11.84 | T |
8 | Writing Armchair | 15.79 | O |
9 | Crazy Quilt | 10.80 | P |
These letters spell out the answer BONNET TOP, which is a broken-arch top furniture style frequently featured on highboys.