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RJ Horner

September 13th Grand View Auction Victorian Furniture Overview

September 11, 2008

Grand View will have a little of everything Victorian in this upcoming sale on Saturday.  The bed above will be up for sale and they are attributing it to Alexander Roux.  I would be happy to pay within the expected range of $4,000 to $6,000 for a bed of this quality were it to actually [...]

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RJHorner.com Relaunched

September 6, 2008

I’ve redesigned and relaunched RJHorner.com and to celebrate, I’ve made the complete 1888 Horner catalog (actually more of a pamphlet) available online at the site.  The drawing above is taken from the back cover.  Details are here.

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Attributing R.J. Horner Hall Chairs

June 27, 2008

I have a labeled Horner Hall or Throne chair (sometimes referred to as Savranola or “X”-Chair) and I have three other unlabeled chairs that share similar traits, so I’ll document how I would come to the conclusion that they are all by the Horner shop.  I wish I could give you a recipe for identifying [...]

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Robert Mitchell Furniture Co. Roman Arm Chair – 1904

June 23, 2008

I purchased a chair a year or so ago at a local auction to go along with my Horner hall chairs. I had previously seen this chair attributed to R.J. Horner and, considering the griffin carvings, I never thought twice about that attribution (like I now instinctively do with everything). It turns out [...]

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Heavily Carved Dining Suite at Steven’s Auction

May 27, 2008

Taking a quick glance at this set, many Victorian antique collectors familiar with the turn-of-the-century gods of Renaissance carved furniture (Horner, Flint, etc.) would assume that this piece was by R.J. Horner. Fortunately this set is labeled and we can be sure that it was made by Oriel Cabinet Co. from Grand Rapids, MI. [...]

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Herter Brothers or R. J. Horner Satyr and Griffin Chair

May 11, 2008

I took a breather from Rare Victorian this weekend to attend to important priorities – gambling in Las Vegas. I’m sitting in the Las Vegas airport on the wireless with hours to spare before takeoff so I thought I’d peruse the wild world of Victorian furniture. I’m operating on about 12 hours sleep [...]

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Sometimes You Need To Imagine The End Result

April 24, 2008

I love it when labels are still intact on antique furniture and in this case, thanks to the Flomaton sale, Rare Victorian readers can now firmly identify this parlor set as being by Karpen Brothers Furniture when they encounter it in the future. Other sets like this have been attributed to R.J. Horner countless [...]

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