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Victorian Antique Furniture Books For The Holidays

December 21, 2008

If you need a relatively inexpensive gift for the holidays for a Victorian collector, the Victorian Antique book page is a good source for some ideas.  Most of the links on the page are to Amazon.com which is a very efficient operation that is able to get books out the door and to your doorstep [...]

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Victorian Renaissance Revival Towel Rack

December 17, 2008

I try to avoid making my 1887 Victorian home a clutter-fest with all sorts of Victoriana dripping off of the walls and table surfaces.  I have a bare minimum of art and some period statues, candelabras, Victorian wall shelves, clocks and that’s about it.
I’m trying to avoid the grandma-effect – that sense when you walk [...]

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The Magazine Antiques Back-Issues

November 24, 2008

The Magazine Antiques provides some of the richest and well-researched material covering any collector’s favorite items, era, region, or maker.  I’ve assembled a list of Victorian-oriented issues below and in some cases I have extra copies available for sale.
We also have hundreds of other issues of The Magazine Antiques going back to the 1920s.  If [...]

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Global and U.S. Antique Popularity Trends

November 17, 2008

As a website owner, I use a lot of tools to assess traffic patterns on my sites, and while doing so recently, I decided that I could use one of them to roughly judge global and U.S. trends for the antiques industry. I wanted to know how the public’s interest in antiques currently stood against [...]

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19th Century Victorian Furniture in … Sweden

September 4, 2008

No this isn’t the predecessor to Ikea, but it is an interesting look into furniture designs in areas of the world other than the France, Italy, U.S., and U.K. that we’re used to.  This is an original catalog of furniture from Sweden in the late 1800s depicting furniture in a variety of styles of the [...]

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Allen & Brother or Herter Brothers Bedroom Suite

August 17, 2008

I was contacted by the recent buyer of the above bedstead, which is part of a two-piece suite. There is no question it is a very desirable set and I’d be happy to have it in one of my bedrooms. It is constructed of solid Rosewood, has gilt incising and a bronze plaque [...]

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Unusual Tin-Clad Victorian Armchair

August 12, 2008

No this isn’t a high-end piece of Victoriana. This chair is “Rare” for another reason – that is not silver paint.
This Victorian-era chair is clad completely in Tin and appears to have been done so originally. I’ve never heard of this treatment for furniture before, but it must coincide with the tin ceiling [...]

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