PIE SAFE

In the first decade of the nineteenth century the Burgner family of Rockingham County, Virginia, moved to East Tennessee.  Over the next century at least four Burgner brothers - John, Peter, Christian, and Daniel - would work as cabinetmakers.  This elegant pie safe with engaged columns, grained cherry panels above and below the columns, and elaborately punched tins with urns, hearts, candlesticks is attributed to the Burgner family of cabinetmakers and descended in the Boyer family of Washington County, Tennessee.