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Antique Attributions Murky Part I

November 14, 2009

A recent Rare Victorian site visitor, Jim, asked the following fair question and rather than get the discussion lost in the comment section of the post that triggered his question, I thought I’d address it in detail as a posting.
Q: I am confused. how do you know these are variants by the same manufacturer and [...]

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For The Record: Kilian Brothers Worktable

September 9, 2009

Here’s another installment of my For The Record posts, in which seek to disburse information on pieces with available documentation for future identification purposes.
While perusing the Neal Auction furniture sections for this weekend’s sale, I noticed a worktable that I have reference material on. This is one of the variants of Kilian Brothers’ work [...]

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Not A Belter Work/Sewing Table

February 13, 2009

I received a note from Joan Bogart about the table that was profiled in a few previous posts. It was documented in the book, “The Furniture of John Henry Belter and the Rococo Revival” on page 83.
Joan feels that the table is not by Belter.  In scrutinizing the photo caption, it seems certain that [...]

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Strange Things Happen

February 7, 2009

On February 2nd I published a post about a John Henry Belter work table and explain that by blogging about it I was imprinting it’s form in my brain.  February 7th I spot what I think is a larger version of the same table (might be same size – pictures are misleading).  Strange coincidence.  Why [...]

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John Henry Belter’s Miscellanea

February 2, 2009

Those of you who visit this site regularly and/or are John Henry Belter furniture fans are very familiar with his over-the-top Rococo parlor furniture – tables, chairs, settees, meridiennes…  But there are, of course, other forms of furniture out there that Belter made that you can run across from time to time, but you need [...]

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