June 23, 2008
I purchased a chair a year or so ago at a local auction to go along with my Horner hall chairs. I had previously seen this chair attributed to R.J. Horner and, considering the griffin carvings, I never thought twice about that attribution (like I now instinctively do with everything). It turns out [...]
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May 1, 2008
You’d think I was on the Neal Auction payroll by the amount of furniture I’ve been profiling by them (I’m not), but as usual, their upcoming sale has a lot that Rare Victorian readers would be interested in owning, budget permitting.
To paraphrase Ving Rhames from the movie Pulp Fiction, I’m going to go medieval on [...]
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