Alexander Roux Cabinet Hiding On Ebay

January 3, 2011
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I’ve always liked perusing Ebay for Victorian Antique finds because you never know what will pop up at a reasonable price. I believe that I have run across an authentic Alexander Roux cabinet (auction completes on 1/4/11 – link will expire in about 7 days) that compares very favorably to other labeled cabinets of similar [...]

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J.W. Davis, Cabinetmaker Extraordinnaire

December 19, 2010
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JohnM posted some photographs in the forum of a 12′ tall Renaissance Revival bedroom suite that must be seen to be believed.  It lives out it’s existence in the Brennan House (built 1868), originally the home of a wealthy tobacco trader in Louisville, KY.  It was sold to Thomas Brennan in 1884 who raised his [...]

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Spiral Furniture Often Not Hunzinger

December 9, 2010
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I thought that this Rare Victorian blog had quashed the rampant Hunzinger mis-attributions out there with our global reach, pervasive presence in the antique community and from me being featured on the cover of Magazine Antiques. Kidding. A recent email from a visitor with a link to a seller’s “Hunzinger” table tells me our work [...]

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Why Antiques Get Mis-Attributed – Six Reasons

December 8, 2010
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Unfortunately, identifying an antique’s manufacturer is sometimes an art and not always a science.  It is not often that a 19th Century item has a patent existing to help us easily identify the maker as does the “lollipop chair” (as we call it today – he never did) by Hunzinger, above.  Absent a definitive mark [...]

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What’s It Worth?

December 5, 2010
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Antique Value Having a blog that is well entrenched into the Google search results leads a lot of new site visitors here that send me photos of their items asking, “what is the value of this antique?”  The problem is, it depends where they would be selling it, when they’d be selling it (the luck [...]

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