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I Never Saw a Purple Cow: This Week’s Forum Roundup

June 10, 2009

This past week, we had a huge brush fire burning just blocks from our home and it made me think long and hard about the contents of our house and what we’d be able to save if disaster struck. It was a frightening few hours and not ones I want to experience ever again, but [...]

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Victorian Furniture Highlighted in Cowan’s June 6, 2009 Fine and Decorative Art Auction

May 26, 2009

Cowan’s is preparing for a solid auction of Fine and Decorative Art on June 6th, where they are emphasizing 19th-century furniture and other decorative arts.
Along with elaborate newel post electroliers, a Tiffany lamp, Meeks side chairs, and Rococo and Renaissance Revival pieces, the sale features a ca 1870-1880 Midwestern Aesthetic [...]

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Selection of Hal Hunt Auction Results

February 26, 2009

Thanks to Rick Ponder, we have a selection of results from the last Hal Hunt sale enumerated in the forum. A few highlights are the Belter bed shown on this post went for $175,000, a Belter dresser for $80,000, and a Belter Milwaukee parlor set that went for $115,000.

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Gerald Lawhorn Collection At Hal Hunt Auctions

February 20, 2009

Major collectors of the best in American Rococo probably have already directed their attention to the February 21st Hal Hunt Auction of the Gerald Lawhorn collection. Lawhorn founded the Griffin, GA PetroSouth chain of gas stations and had invented a system to buy gas at the pump using a credit or debit card.

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Strange Things Happen

February 7, 2009

On February 2nd I published a post about a John Henry Belter work table and explain that by blogging about it I was imprinting it’s form in my brain. February 7th I spot what I think is a larger version of the same table (might be same size – pictures are misleading). Strange coincidence. Why [...]

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Antique Table Escapes From Jail

November 30, 2008

This Folk Art table from around 1900 is purportedly one that was made in a penitentiary in Kansas, possibly Lansing Penitentiary. Similar tables are in the Kansas State Historical Society and the Kansas Secretary of State’s Office. The top (below) has extensive marquetry work and the feet are brass claws with glass balls.
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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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