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Traditionally, the two major auction groups organize in January in New York their sales of American furniture and furnishings, generally with a strong section for silverware. Without waiting for the press release of Christie's, we go directly to lot 214 of their sale of January 23. It is a chest-of-drawers made in Boston circa 1770, while North America lived the last years of its colonial perio…