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Antique Attributions Murky Part I

November 14, 2009

A recent Rare Victorian site visitor, Jim, asked the following fair question and rather than get the discussion lost in the comment section of the post that triggered his question, I thought I’d address it in detail as a posting.
Q: I am confused. how do you know these are variants by the same manufacturer and [...]

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Daniel Pabst Free-For-All

November 21, 2008

There are seven – count ‘em – seven “Pabst” pieces on Ebay right now and I wonder about how loosely the name is being bandied about for anything that resembles the style that he worked in.
British architect Bruce Talbert’s influential “Gothic Forms“, published in 1867, influenced many a maker at the time, including some to [...]

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All Furniture Was Not Made In America

May 14, 2008

Sometimes I think that there is a rush to judge too quickly that antiques that we run across have been made in America. This bookcase is certainly a very nice one, but I think the tile inserts led the seller to believe it must have been made by a prominent American maker. The [...]

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