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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Elijah Galusha Settee Photos

December 3, 2010
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As I always say, one cannot have too many Elijah Galusha reference photos lying around for that emergency Rococo furniture identification that always pops up.  This set is from a Galusha settee at the Rensselaer Historical Society in Troy, NY that I haven’t put up yet. He seems to have been fond of “reeding” his [...]

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The Rare Victorian Store Launches

November 26, 2010
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It’s high time I selectively whittle my Victorian antique collection down as I have bought and bought and ran out of space to put it all in. Therefore, the Rare Victorian Antiques Store has been born! I will be adding more items to the inventory in the coming days, but we are open for business!  [...]

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William Koelle, Philadelphia Maker’s Label

November 22, 2010
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One of my first late-19th century table purchases was a real beater, but I bought it because at the time I felt it was probably a table by Merklen Brothers.  I thought that I’d get around to repairing and refinishing it as I did with this other Merklen.  Repairing this one, however, would cost way [...]

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Neal Auction Louisiana Purchase Sale, November 20th & 21st

November 18, 2010
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Neal Auction is preparing for their annual Louisiana Purchase sale this weekend which includes a full representation of styles from the early 19th Century through the early 20th. One of the more interesting items is a Gothic Carved Rosewood Center Table, c. 1845, after a design by Alexander Jackson Davis with original hexagonal white marble [...]

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