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Kimbel & Cabus Modern Gothic Armchair at Neal Auction

October 3, 2008

In my opinion, Neal Auction is being a bit conservative in their attribution on this chair. I’m always very appreciative of Neal’s condition information and research that they provide with their listing and I feel they are consistently careful not to go out on a limb on attributing a maker unless they have a [...]

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Neal Auction to Sell Another 1857 House of Representatives Chair

July 10, 2008

If you followed the drama of Kathie’s chair identification here on Rare Victorian (Part I, II, III, and related posts IV, and V), you might be interested to know that Neal Auction is selling another of these original 1857 House of Representatives chairs. Half of the chairs were manufactured by Hammitt Desk Co. of Philadelphia [...]

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John Jellif Furniture Prices Dropping or Anomaly?

July 3, 2008

I will be checking the results of the above attributed John Jelliff 4-piece parlor set after the July 12th Neal Auction sale is over. The 8-piece set that recently sold at Cowan’s drew a disappointing $2,600. Maybe there was a structural issue with one or more of the pieces as was mentioned in the forum [...]

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Kathie’s Bembe and Kimbel Stencil

June 24, 2008

Above is an image of Kathie’s Bembe and Kimbel signature. The wood is indeed dry and the markings are worn, but it seems to be of the 928 Broadway variation. Hard to say from just this image, but that is my guess. Below is one from a Neal Auction chair.

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Rosewood Mitchell & Rammelsberg Etagere

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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I Was Kidding …

April 24, 2008

Just a quick post to make sure everyone knew I was kidding on this post about the Quervelle-attributed sofa. I tried to lather it on thick so that it was hopefully obvious that I loved the sofa and was trying to farcically “discourage” any competition from bidding:

“special” 40% buyers premium
located in Siberia
cardboard facades
1960s reproduction
bidding [...]

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Unattractive and Undesirable Sofa at Neal Auction

April 20, 2008

Pay no mind to this Grecian (scroll back) sofa in the next Neal Auction coming up in the May 3rd and 4th sale. The carved Cornucopias, incised crestrail, and seat rail gadrooning speak nothing of Anthony Quervelle and his designs. A friend who inspected this sofa for me indicated that the carved legs [...]

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