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Posts tagged George Hunzinger from the RareVictorian furniture archive.
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I thought that this Rare Victorian blog had quashed the rampant Hunzinger mis-attributions out there with our global reach, pervasive presence in the antique community and from me being featured on the cover of Magazine
This is a George Hunzinger "Dining or Library Chair No. 44" from the Kimball's Book of Designs: Furniture and Drapery (Boston, 1876). I have a question into the seller of the chair on the right to see if the original wir
George Hunzinger furniture fans will probably be interested to see this chair design by him based on the 1869 brace patent. This is not a common form and I personally haven't seen one in the past. You can see the chair w
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I recently purchased an Emerson & Son furniture catalog from 1893 which I will make available on the catalog page in future. What caught my eye in the catalog was the image seen below. As I said to Paul Tucker in an
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Whoa. It has taken me 5 days to isolate an issue on this blog that prevented me from creating new posts. It is easier to troubleshoot problems where nothing works at all then to troubleshoot the case where everything wor
Sorry if this series of posts is hitting the press slowly, but that is intentional as I am getting new information real-time and I want to be sure that you get it as it rolls in. As we've been exploring in the past two p
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Continuing from where the last post left off,we were trying to determine if an unlabeled chair that Zeke Feldhaus recently purchased was produced by George Hunzinger due to the patent-protected brace design (very bottom
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I hope everyone had a great holiday break as did I, but it's time for us all to get back to normalcy. Let's kick off year 3 of Rare Victorian with a little furniture analysis triggered by a recent series of emails from Z
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I thought I'd share a photograph from a newspaper article on George Hunzinger that I received from RV regular Zeke. Thanks, Zeke.
This past weekend saw a pair of these George Hunzinger chairs go for $6,000 at auction and now there is a single chair currently seeing some bidding with six days left in the sale, above. It is currently bid up to $1,825
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One of my favorite issues of the Magazine Antiques (and I have hundreds dating back as far as the 1930s) is the May 2005 issue with an article by Paul Tucker on Moorish Fretwork. As some of you may know, Paul is a regula
George HunzingerMerklen BrothersMoorish FretworkFurnitureSpiralMagazine AntiquesMoses Younglove Ransom
Neal Auction's upcoming sale will feature several pieces of George Hunzinger furniture, including the above sofa and a chair that would match it, were they to be upholstered in the same manner. I expect there to be a wid
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If you remember this post a while back, I spotted this chair that looked out of place and ran a contest to see who could figure out what was different about it. There were many responses in the comments section and many
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I had previously mentioned that I'd be giving you a little more of a review on my latest book purchase, Victorian Detail, by Priscilla S. Meyer, so here goes. Lise Bohm tipped me off to this book, as she occasionally doe
John Henry BelterAlexander RouxCharles BaudouineDaniel PabstGeorge HenkelsGeorge HunzingerHerter BrothersJohn JelliffLeon MarcotteThomas BrooksCharles KleinBabbsBeebe & LeeBerkey & GayAlexander Jackson DavisGould & Co.John HallJ.L & G.A. HazardS.J. JohnKimbel & CabusCharles-Honore LannuierIgnatius LutzPrudent MallardJoseph MeeksMitchell & RammelsbergNelson & Matter Co.Duncan PhyfeGeorge PlattPottier & StymusFrancois SeignouretEdwin A. SmallwoodA.J. StewartGustav StickleyLouis Comfort TiffanyJames W. WoodwellVictorian DetailVictorian Furniture Dictionary
I'ts nice to have the drudgery of the blog move done and get back to passing on some of the furniture that I'm running across. If I don't have to deal with another Nameserver for the rest of my life, it will be too soon.
Ok Rare Victorianites, I think we were all asleep yesterday since the Hunzinger chair above went for $325 at Cowan's, which might be a recent record low for a chair of the style. Even if you shipped it to New Mexico, you
There are a few items of Victorian furniture going up for sale during the Cowan's auction this weekend, including this pair of Meeks Stanton Hall armchairs. There's a second pair of Meeks side chairs that are also up for
John Henry BelterCharles BaudouineGeorge HunzingerJ and JW Meeks
Considering the recent flurry of Hunzinger mania at the auctions as you remember from this post, and the fact that a "Hunzinger" shaving mirror went for $3,700 this past weekend. I thought I'd reward the Rare Victorian r
I have this picture in my head of Wall Street traders' flailing arms with tickets in hand and yelling, "Buy, Buy, Buy Hunzinger!" That is about what it feels like with a recent series of Hunzinger purchases that have tra
Betty Sterling contacted me about wanting to sell her George Hunzinger rocker shown above. It has an 1882 patent stamp and his trademark duplex spring. The upholstery is it's original leather and appears to have an embos
I'm a big fan of George Hunzinger's work and when I ran across this unusual Lollipop chair by him I had to bring it home. I have never seen this chair in any of the auctions, Ebay or otherwise, nor in the Barry Harwood H
You will occasionally run across the phrase "In the manner of" within a furniture listing to denote a case where the seller is leaning (oftentimes strongly) against attributing a piece to a particular maker. Elements of
Just a quick note to point out that a Hunzinger rocker with the duplex spring popped up for sale in the San Francisco area (they're saying no shipping). It appears to be in good condition and has nice spiral turned frame
This Merklen chair (my attribution) is buried under a "Gothic Revival" description with no mention of either Hunzinger or Merklen and is posted with an expected range of $250-$350. Considering the last nice Merklen chair
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Rockers aren't exactly sexy so I don't generally post about them but this one is important for historical reference. There are too few labeled Victorian pieces out there to give us an historic record of who made what. Th
RJ HornerGeorge FlintGeorge HunzingerMerklen BrothersRockerSpiral Turned
Unfortunately I was too late on purchasing a nice table from Antiquarian Traders, pictured above. It had previously been sold by the time that I inquired and had not yet been removed from one of the many sites that they
Up at auction is a George Hunzinger stamped chair, patented in 1866. This chair design is depicted on page 51 of "The Furniture of George Hunzinger, Invention and Innovation in Nineteenth-Century America" by Barry Harwoo
Here's' the George Hunzinger Lollipop Settee from the "The Furniture of George Hunzinger Invention and Innovation in Nineteenth Century America" by Barry R. Harwood on page 131. Thanks go out to Joan Bogart who provided
I am posting this pic of a settee by George Hunzinger for Ellen who passed by the Rare Victorian Blog this week and asked if Hunzinger did a settee in-line with the lollipop chair designs. Thanks very much to Joan Bogart
Ebonized chair made by Hunzinger which was patented by him in 1869. This particular incarnation is ebonized with gold incising, though I have this chair in the natural walnut finish at my home. I wouldn't buy this chair
It's not unusual to run into a Hunzinger lollipop chair but I haven't run into a matched pair: armchair and rocker. As I write this, the set has been bid up to only $202, though I anticipate them reaching a much higher p
Here's a great George Hunzinger signed chair made of Walnut measuring 32" by 19". Bidding starts at $1,500 with shipping at $109. This auction ends on April 2nd and can be seen here.