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Mystery Chair – Late Classical or Nouveau?

August 5, 2009

Here’s an intriguing mystery chair for you which is in the middle of disagreement on it’s age.  This isn’t a casual situation where a curious chair owner would like to know, but a case where the chair is being offered to a museum and two book authors disagree on the timeframe of it’s manufacture.  Here [...]

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“Empire” Furniture Isn’t Always Empire Furniture

June 13, 2009

I interrupt this blog that occasionally masquerades as something scholarly and amounts to not much more than Victorian eye-candy and tabloid-style cabinetmaker worship to discuss the use of “Empire” to describe more than the period technically defines.  Too many of us do it (myself included until recently) and I know that many of us care [...]

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Victorian Is Dead In Alexandria, VA

September 21, 2008

I spent a good part of the weekend in Alexandria, VA this weekend with some long-time friends for a certain milestone birthday bash, and on the way to their house my wife and I did some antiquing there near King Street.
I will officially declare Victorian completely dead in Alexandria.  Yes, there are historic Victorian structures [...]

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Why I Do The Research That I Do

June 5, 2008

The stand above is a good example of why I read and research Victorian Furniture to the extent that I do. When I first started collecting Victorian Furniture it was only so that I could put furniture in my home (built in 1887) that was more befitting the house than what I already owned.
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Egyptian Revival Mirror – Or, Is It Actually Grecian Revival?

May 22, 2008

Well, congratulations Rare Victorian readers. In a few days we’ve basically wiped out the Internet’s supply of Victorian Detail books from several sellers. Those of you who nabbed one, you won’t be disappointed. I’m hoping there are other great books out there that I haven’t yet discovered.
As for this mirror above, the [...]

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Herter Brothers Bookcase Find

November 20, 2007

You may remember Ralph and Pamela Krainik from the previous post on their monumental clock. They recently let me know that they purchased a Victorian bookcase and were able to identify it as a Herter Brothers piece due to the Rare Victorian post on a stamped Herter Bookcase here! That certainly makes me [...]

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All-Original Signed Herter Brothers Walnut Bookcase

November 7, 2007

This is the first Herter Brothers bookcase that I have run across since I’ve been collecting over the past few years and this one is stamped “Herter Bros.” to confirm it’s origin. If I had a spare $10k to buy furniture that I don’t need, it would probably go into replacing my existing early [...]

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