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John Henry Belter Patents – Improved Bedstead & “Dished” Lamination

May 4, 2009

Below are two of four patents that John Henry Belter secured (two more to follow):
Pat. 15,552 (Aug. 19, 1856) – John Henry Belter’s improved bedstead patent that seeks to address issues with bed construction prior, such as assembly, eliminating recesses where bugs could reside, and reclaiming lost space from the requirement of thick bed posts [...]

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“Hunzinger Chair” Mystery Part III

January 12, 2009

Sorry if this series of posts is hitting the press slowly, but that is intentional as I am getting new information real-time and I want to be sure that you get it as it rolls in.  As we’ve been exploring in the past two posts (Part I, and Part II), we’re trying to determine if [...]

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“Hunzinger Chair” Mystery Part II

January 9, 2009

Continuing from where the last post left off,we were trying to determine if an unlabeled chair that Zeke Feldhaus recently purchased was produced by George Hunzinger due to the patent-protected brace design (very bottom image) in the chair or whether another manufacturer either infringed on his patent or perhaps had licensed it.
Zeke had also ran [...]

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“Hunzinger Chair” Mystery Part I

January 5, 2009

I hope everyone had a great holiday break as did I, but it’s time for us all to get back to normalcy.  Let’s kick off year 3 of Rare Victorian with a little furniture analysis triggered by a recent series of emails from Zeke Feldhaus, a Rare Victorian regular contributor who purchased the chair to [...]

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Metal-Clad Furniture Patent – An Alternative To Brass

September 1, 2008

Paul Tucker found what I believe to be the likely explanation behind this metal-clad armchair that was discussed several posts ago. Paul ran into a patent filed by Erastus W. Whitlock.
A drawing included in the patent application depicts a metal-coated bed post whose core is made of wood.  The purpose of the patent was [...]

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