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Miniature Furniture Antiques

June 18, 2009

I enjoyed the video below of high quality antique miniature furniture produced by Antiques TV. These aren’t your ordinary dollhouse furniture pieces – they are very well made and use high quality materials.

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Herter Brothers Furniture In The Movies

May 5, 2009

We received a tip from Joe in the comments on this post that we could find some of the Warner Brothers Herter Brothers furniture stash that recently sold at Bonhams in the film, “The Unsinkable Molly Brown.”   I located the above screen capture from a clip from YouTube confirming his story.
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Belter Bidding War

March 1, 2009

This video is from a 2006 Antiques Roadshow video appraisal done on this pair of John Henry Belter scroll pattern armchairs where the buyer paid $7,000 for them – a result of a heated bidding war where the thrill got the better of him.  I’m a bit more taken aback by the $4,000 to $6,000 [...]

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Antiques Roadshow Herter Brothers “Burn Mark” Parlor Table

January 30, 2009

As Michael Flanigan said in this Antiques Roadshow appraisal, if this table hadn’t been branded “Herter Bros”, I would have passed it off as a nice Rosewood Renaissance Revival table.  However this is indeed a true Herter Brothers table that originated from the estate of Darius Ogden Mills, a wealthy Californian that made his money [...]

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Video – Antique Rococo Revival Chair Crest Repair

August 7, 2008

Some good friends of mine asked for a recommendation on a repair shop and I mentioned to them that Rose Valley Restorations does good work for me, so they brought the chair to me to take in to John Hutchinson.  This will be the first of two short videos on the repair.
This is a repair [...]

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Video – Part III: Refinishing A Merklen Brothers “Shabby” Table

July 8, 2008

A quick update on the table’s progress in this video. It is fully stripped and sanded and the quartersawn Oak shows in all it’s bare glory. We select stain for the wood and paint for the griffins.
Video Part I and Part II – if you haven’t already seen them.

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Video – Part II: Refinishing A Merklen Brothers “Shabby” Table

July 5, 2008

Here’s Part II of the Merklen Brothers table refinish project.  If you didn’t view the first Part yet, I recommend you watch it first, here.
In this episode, I’m in the shop of my favorite local furniture restoration business, Rose Valley Restorations, and we go through a battery of tests to determine the best approach to [...]

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