From the monthly archives:

March 2008

George Hunzinger Side Chair Patent March 30, 1869

March 21, 2008

I have put up a signed Hunzinger chair for sale on Ebay today and the sale will be running until Sunday March 30th. I have not run across this particular chair of his in pictures or otherwise. I’m particularly fond of the finials on this chair and there are plenty of them. [...]

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Cottone Auctions – Winter 2008 Art and Antique Auction

March 19, 2008

Cottone Autions is having an auction this weekend and there are a few pieces of Victorian furniture going up for sale. Cottone is located in Geneseo, NY about 36 miles outside of Rochester. With a name like Geneseo, I had to look up whether Genesee Beer was brewed nearby and found that, yes [...]

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Special Mention – Emeriol’s Hunzinger Blog

March 18, 2008

If you are a Hunzinger fan as I am, you need to be aware of Emeriol’s Hunzinger blog. He has been a strong supporter of Rare Victorian over the past year and I wanted to return the favor. He regularly posts as I do about furniture, but his posts are limited to the [...]

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Rare Victorian Featured on the Antique Trader Blog

March 18, 2008

As many of you are familiar, Antique Trader is a weekly magazine covering the Antiques and Collectibles marketplace and that they make much of the same content available on their website as well. You may or may not be aware that the editor, Noah Fleisher, has an online blog here and that Rare Victorian [...]

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Victorian Splendor Cover Bed

March 18, 2008

Well, I missed something, and that is why your participation is key here. There’s a lot of knowledge out there that we all could benefit from if everyone commented on blog postings and wrote in the forum (or just sent me an email). It’s been kinda quiet around here recently, and I hope [...]

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Cowan’s Results and the NYC Pier Show

March 16, 2008

Ok Rare Victorianites, I think we were all asleep yesterday since the Hunzinger chair above went for $325 at Cowan’s, which might be a recent record low for a chair of the style. Even if you shipped it to New Mexico, you’d still be ahead on the chair’s value. A separate wire [...]

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Victorian Furniture at Cowan’s Auction This Weekend

March 14, 2008

There are a few items of Victorian furniture going up for sale during the Cowan’s auction this weekend, including this pair of Meeks Stanton Hall armchairs. There’s a second pair of Meeks side chairs that are also up for sale but have both suffered broken backs and subsequent repairs. Fortunately additional images showing [...]

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