Looks like Louis XVI got together with Sheraton and asked the Thonet brothers about doing some canework, as Frank Lloyd Wright chimed in about the...
Escritoire rather than secretary, actually. Sweden was famous for its own brand of empire furniture. Can't say if it is the real deal from the...
Not sure about the lining, but the fretwork under the hammer (mine) years ago, and if not mistaken in some of those Millers guides too. I'll see...
I've seen that kind of fret before. It's not unique, but very handsome. They are not transition but top notch 1920s Art Deco proper. The...
Nice bombee commode (also called many other things) and what looks like a demilune oversize bedside table. At a glance, good quality, good...
Amazing pieces! I don't know what to praise more, the grain of the veneer, the marble tops, or the brass fittings, but they are top of the line....
It certainly is a bronze statuette with a marble base--that is quite straight forward. Now, the devil is in the rest of any possible description....
Thing is, they are all copies, really. You're safe if you say it's seemingly "a late" one, which covers both the twenties and the fifties (which...
It doesn't have to mean anything, but the nut holding the brass in place is modern (hexagonal).
This is close to what they sometimes call a butler's chest (in which the top drawer opens up as a writing desk with pigeon holes at the back, and...
Still, these modest chairs are the best of the best compared to the carboard and white tubular steel people buy from supermarkets for a multiple...
I'd say not art deco proper, but from that era, and clearly reflecting some of the feel. Still, Solomonic/barley uprights were not part of the...
The date matters most of all (in most cases). I am no Dickens expert, but I know David Copperfield was published in book form for the first time...
I think the general rule in the US is that if it has a writing surface, it is first and foremost a desk, no matter what happens below or on top or...
Very nice, but not a writers desk unless it belonged to Emily Dickinson or something, more of a lady's or a bureau on stand otherwise. Any chance...
Do oil and wax it, it could not possibly hurt its look and value but quite the opposite. I guess in this case, it was actually more of a drinks...
Never been to Australia, but my cousins there never mentioned that pub (guess they are content with there being beer). If the feel of those...
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