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Signed Gothic Revival Desk by Elijah Galusha

November 29, 2009

We’ve seen plenty of Rococo Revival furniture from Elijah Galusha and now I have photos of photos (so please excuse quality) from 1979 and the accompanying excerpt from a letter that Renssalaer County Historical Society received along with them.  The third photo shows a stencil, “E.G. Troy 1843″. I recently purchased a signed and dated [...]

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The Helen Of Troy Theory

May 28, 2009

(Continuation from Part I and Part II) I’ve been talking a lot about Jenny Lind lately and here’s the impetus for my resurgent interest in solving the mystery of who the carved-arm females are meant to depict: The owner of the sofa had recently put it up for sale on Ebay and an intriguing story [...]

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