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Hunzinger Parlor Suite Hits $17,925 at Neal’s Winter Estate Event

February 13, 2010
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As evidenced by the Hunzinger Parlor Suite sale, the results of Neal Auction Company’s Winter Estate Auction held January 30 and 31 are impressive indeed. Fine Victorian suites and cabinets were sale highlights.
Bearing the stamp of George Hunzinger, New York was this fabulous late 19th century American Renaissance carved and ebonized walnut parlor suite that [...]

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Thomas Brooks Sideboard Stencil Confirms Maker

December 1, 2009

I thought I’d give the Rare Victorian readers who don’t appreciate Rococo Revival a little break from the Galusha deluge and whip up a post for Renaissance Revival fans.
How often is it that you see the biggest, chunkiest Renaissance Revival pieces attributed to Thomas Brooks? Often. And it is usually based on slim [...]

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Antique Attributions Murky Part II

November 18, 2009

I think an equally important problem with making attributions is that we, on the whole, have long forgotten many fine makers from the Victorian era, probably numbering in the thousands – America alone, let alone globally. With an absence of labels, tags or stamps, we have nothing to remember them by except for old, [...]

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New York Cabinetmakers Get Married

August 21, 2009

Neal Auction has another of their great sales coming up in September and I’ll try to cover more of the items as it comes nearer, but I was tipped off to an anomaly in one of their featured lots, the etagere above.
The bottom of the etagere greatly resembles the “Fountain Elms” etagere which MWPI attributes [...]

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Herts Brothers Bedroom Furniture For Sale

August 20, 2009

Available for sale is this very impressive twin bedroom set made by Herts Brothers during the turn of the 20th century in the Louis XV style.  The extensive inlay includes brass, copper, pewter and mother of pearl and the four-piece set includes a pair of matching dressers.  The suite includes an original label confirming the [...]

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Birdseye Maple Dresser Identification

January 17, 2009

Here’s a little “in-the-field” reporting as I spend some time away from home this weekend on the Chesapeake Bay visiting some friends and shopping with my wife.  Fortunately for me, there is a selection of girlie shops with three antique shops nearby.  I can bait my wife into town with the former and end up [...]

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Original 1855 John Henry Belter Furniture Order Receipt

August 24, 2008

Lise Bohm has shared with us an original 1855 receipt that she owns documenting a Belter furniture order by what appears to be Col. B. L. Jordan. I was unable to find anything documented on this Colonel.
The order is for 2 Sofas, 2 armchairs, 4 parlour chairs, 1 centre table, 1 fine Etagere, 1 [...]

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