Note to Neal Auction:  free advertising on Rare Vic for infinity if this cabinet finds it’s way to my front door.  Don’t worry, it’s a covered porch.  Like they would need to bribe me since I blog about their sales anyway.

Yes, I’m drooling over this fantastic Allen & Brother cabinet coming up at the Louisiana Purchase Sale on the 11th.  They have another sale chock full of big names: Meeks, Belter, Pottier & Stymus, Herter Brothers, Doe Hazelton.  Yes, Doe Hazelton as in the House of Representatives desk manufacturers.  The desk in this sale indeed bears their stencil and it is a fine example.  There’s even a solo effort by Gustave Herter (attributed) in this sale in the form of a chair frame.

I have questions about a few of the attributions as I have the tendency to do - the P&S table resembles Marcotte more so to me and the Belter Library Chair is very reminiscent of the Henkels/White chair that Neal recently sold.  The key differentiator appears to be - lamination.  The chair sold prior didn’t appear to be laminated while this one is indeed laminated.  That’s an interesting distinction and I see where they are going with that one.

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If you’re in the Dallas area, the Dallas Auction Gallery is putting this laminated Rosewood chair up for bid and is attributing it to Alexander Roux.

I haven’t had anyone correct me on this yet as I count on you all to do when I misspeak, but to my recollection, Roux did not produce laminated furniture.

The form of this chair is very reminiscent of chairs sold by George Henkels (notice I said sold and not made - there is still much research to do there).  I am on the road without my battery of reference materials, but there is much on this chair to remind me of other Henkels pieces.  Here are some other chairs sold under his attributed moniker (here, here and here).

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Kathryn Bauer is offering the following antique Victorian furniture items for sale which you can view in the images to follow.

• A Henkels-attributed Rosewood sofa recently reupholstered.  Kathy has extra matching fabric if someone has chairs that they would like to match up with the sofa.  A modified version of this sofa design is depicted on page 116 in American Furniture of the 19th Century by Dubrow & Dubrow.
• A small settee with ivory damask fabric, recently reupholstered with original horsehair stuffing retained.
• A pair of marble-top Rococo Rosewood corner tables with markings of the original owner’s name and “Dallas” written on the underside of the marble SOLD
  

For more information, please contact me and I put you in contact with Kathy directly.

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