Moths got to it. Plenty of commercial products available, containing some kind of phenol.
Doesn't look like a makers mark but owners personalization
Well, good for you cat. And if they were a thousand short, they had it coming for going round painting good furniture.;) They call these both,...
The studs are unusual, but it takes a certain kind of person to identify elephant leather. I've only seen it once--one of those stools made of...
I can't tell from the pictures if properly Georgian or a Victorian copy, but looks bicentennial anyway. Could use a good cleaning and waxing.
They're oak. A darker golden would suit them very well (as in just wax them) but the top rail upholstery I think they could do without if possible.
Ditto. "DEFINITELY nicer than most chairs you could buy now".
The trunk itself looks turn-of-the-century, and if only valuable to you because of the labels, I guess you could carefully steam the labels loose...
Very nice sheet music cabinet (also perfect to accommodate files these days). Sorry to hear you're now eating and writing on your lap now ! ;)
The electric clock is decorative enough to find a buyer, and the other maybe for the parts. Believe it or not, I think the first thing you'll sell...
More pictures of the smaller one with the clock on top would help assess what you have there. The lattice work looks interesting, I can tell you...
Looks very Limbert-y to me, though a quick search in my catalogues came out negative (not that it isn't or isn't by some Stickley brother or...
The restorer was right, they represent a miss-match of styles typical of a time when they thought arts and crafts was démodé but didn't know where...
Yea, but the bookends themselves look good and substantital. Are those 12mos?
Cool, fairly typical 80s-90s skateboard, other than the "scalloping" but then again nothing was unusual back then, really. Interesting, but not...
Welded, and galvanized steel sheet, so not that old. As folk art, though, you might have something there.
Do keep shifting the look. That looks like firewood to me.
Well, although the carving could potentially be interesting, I don't see the piece as very distinctive from these pictures. The inside is nice...
I would have expected the glass to be beveled, that's all. Very nice. The silver lining where you are is that there is no chance of it being a...
If from the late 19th century, it was very old fashioned, so I'd venture a little earlier--But the glass looks new, though.
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