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Old 04-12-2008, 10:55 AM   #37
wildwoodfam
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Wink Your confusing two types of shutters....

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Originally Posted by nj2nh View Post
Weren't these shutters good protection from the weather, too? I thought that is what they were actually for. I have never heard the term Indian Shutter before.

Are they similar to the decorative shutters on homes now? Like the ones, perhaps, all over Williamsburg?

nj2nh
The decorative outdoor shutters were created as protection against the weather. Indoor pocket shutters are different, and served a different purpose. The shuttered inside the window....

I think the Williamsburg Homes you refer to - much like the New England homes in our "quintessential" villages often have both, pocket shutters and weather shutters....but you see more often the decorative shutters that hang on the outside of homes.
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