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Hunzinger Parlor Suite Hits $17,925 at Neal’s Winter Estate Event

February 13, 2010

As evidenced by the Hunzinger Parlor Suite sale, the results of Neal Auction Company’s Winter Estate Auction held January 30 and 31 are impressive indeed. Fine Victorian suites and cabinets were sale highlights.
Bearing the stamp of George Hunzinger, New York was this fabulous late 19th century American Renaissance carved and ebonized walnut parlor suite that [...]

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Herter Cabinet Spotted In 1964 Movie – My Fair Lady

December 15, 2009

Ulysses Dietz, curator at Newark Museum recently stopped by to give us a heads up on a Herter Brothers cabinet that a friend of his spotted in the 1964 Warner Brothers movie, My Fair Lady. I extracted a scene showing the library, above, and have provided the Bonham’s sale image below. I believe that we [...]

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Herter Brothers-Attributed Cabinet May Be Allen & Brother

June 12, 2009

I bid on a cabinet this week after I learned of a “Herter Brothers” cabinet coming up at a local auction. I immediately thought Allen & Brother when I saw the cabinet photos. I coincidentally ran into the “Gems of the Centennial” which I then posted here on Rare Victorian and lo an behold there [...]

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Carlo Bugatti – A Century Ahead Of His Time

May 1, 2009

Carlo Bugatti’s Art Nouveau furniture designs look more like they were designed for Batman’s home than for the homes of the turn of the 19th century when they were made (the firescreen above was is circa 1900). Paul Tucker tells me that indeed Bruce Wayne’s bedroom furniture in one of the recent Batman movies was [...]

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Victorian Antique Lorillard Tobacco Cabinet

January 19, 2009

Not something that you’d hang above your Rococo or Aesthetic Movement sofa, but here’s a great 1880s Victorian tobacco cabinet from the Lorilard Tobacco Company, which operated 100 years prior to this cabinet’s creation as well as operates even to this day. Lorillard was founded in 1760 by entrepreneur Pierre Lorillard and was the first [...]

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Mitchell & Rammelsberg Music/Map Rack

December 24, 2008

A quick mention that there is just a day left on a music/map rack on Ebay that bears the original Mitchell & Rammelsberg stencil. It’s not often that you find these with their original maker names on them, let alone M&R. As I’ve stated in the past, these are great for storing magazines and books [...]

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The Magazine Antiques Back-Issues

November 24, 2008

The Magazine Antiques provides some of the richest and well-researched material covering any collector’s favorite items, era, region, or maker. I’ve assembled a list of Victorian-oriented issues below and in some cases I have extra copies available for sale.
We also have hundreds of other issues of The Magazine Antiques going back to the 1920s. If [...]

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