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Fine Pair Of Victorian Tables And Satin Glass To Be Sold 10/11

October 7, 2009

Nevin at Circa 19th Century Antiques has put up several Victorian-era lots on Ebay that will sell by this Sunday. I will draw your attention to three of them in particular:
A fine Renaissance Revival parlor table with desirable sienna marble. From the listing:
C 1860-70 Renaissance Victorian center table, probably NYC, maybe Pottier & Stymus [...]

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Antiques Roadshow Herter Brothers “Burn Mark” Parlor Table

January 30, 2009

As Michael Flanigan said in this Antiques Roadshow appraisal, if this table hadn’t been branded “Herter Bros”, I would have passed it off as a nice Rosewood Renaissance Revival table. However this is indeed a true Herter Brothers table that originated from the estate of Darius Ogden Mills, a wealthy Californian that made his money [...]

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Antique Table Escapes From Jail

November 30, 2008

This Folk Art table from around 1900 is purportedly one that was made in a penitentiary in Kansas, possibly Lansing Penitentiary. Similar tables are in the Kansas State Historical Society and the Kansas Secretary of State’s Office. The top (below) has extensive marquetry work and the feet are brass claws with glass balls.
Jackson’s Auction will [...]

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For The Record: Israel Fellows

November 14, 2008

I’d like to start a new feature on Rare Victorian, which I hope will last beyond this one post, called “For The Record”. The aim is to profile some less prolific, less visible, or “lost” cabinetmakers from the Victorian era. I’ll especially try to target makers whose pieces seem to be anonymously floating (or wrongly [...]

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Pottier & Stymus Inlaid Ebonized Parlor Table

November 12, 2008

This parlor table is very similar to a table in the “Styles of American Furniture” book on page 67. There appears to be differences in the inlay wood choices resulting in a rosier (Rosewood) color to this table. The incising patterns on the lower section vary between them, as does the number of undulations on [...]

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Stubby Finds a Home

October 13, 2008

Are there any independent film producers out there? I have a new movie title for you to produce, “Stubby Finds a Home”. Probably more of a Disney flick than a Tom Cruise action flick.
The new owner of the cut-down Rococo table that I profiled on Rare Victorian while it was up for sale wrote to [...]

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Just Call Me Stubby

September 15, 2008

I love how the seller of this cut-down Rococo parlor table puts it in the listing:
This WAS once a magnificent Victorian rosewood center table with turtle marble top. Somewhere down the line a long time ago, some rocket scientist decided to make a coffee table out of it and cut the legs off of it. [...]

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