From the monthly archives:

January 2008

What Victorian Furniture is Everyone Else Bidding On?

January 31, 2008

Sometimes digging through Ebay for Victorian Antiques can be like hunting for a needle in a haystack unless you have some trusty searches set up. I’ve added a “What’s Hot” search on the left side of the page to provide quick access to Victorian Furniture that has had at least one bid as well [...]

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Determining When Antique Furniture Isn’t Old

January 30, 2008

I ran into these photos on Craigslist yesterday as I was looking for a Victorian bed. Craigslist listings may provide some good deals but their minuscule photos do not provide any means of checking the condition of the item that you’re looking at. When photos are uploaded to Craigslist, they’re downsized to reduce [...]

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1890s Cast Iron Victorian Roof Cresting

January 27, 2008

I have 120 feet of Cast Iron Roof Cresting that I am selling on Ebay across 3 lots. Cresting was generally used on Second Empire Victorians and unfortunately, many homes that have sported this feature have had them removed over the years. The cresting I own came from an 1890s Second Empire Victorian [...]

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Rare Hunzinger High-Back Lollipop Chair

January 27, 2008

I’m a big fan of George Hunzinger’s work and when I ran across this unusual Lollipop chair by him I had to bring it home. I have never seen this chair in any of the auctions, Ebay or otherwise, nor in the Barry Harwood Hunzinger book or any other book for that matter. [...]

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What Are Your Favorite Antique Stores?

January 25, 2008

A recent purchase of mine is the music cabinet pictured above and below. It is one of several finds that I’ve made at Stoudt’s Antique Mall in Adamstown, PA. You gotta love an antique mall with 700 dealers and a brewery/restaurant with some of the best beer and hamburgers you’ll find anywhere. [...]

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Somebody Got a Deal at $2,000

January 24, 2008

Just noticed that this Aesthetic cabinet that I was monitoring went for $2,000. I had actually opened the bidding window (it was live) to wait for the lot to come up but something distracted me and I never made it back. I had a sneaky suspicion that it would possibly be one [...]

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Alexander Roux or Pottier & Stymus?

January 23, 2008

If you’re new to Rare Victorian or you just missed the first-ever post, I’ll mention again that this blog was initially created as a real-time journey as I educate myself in the niche of rare Victorian furniture. This blog just recently hit the one year birthday mark and that makes me very happy since [...]

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