Sewing machine bases like this can be picked up for $15.00 or so in these parts. Can't tell if the top is wood or marble from the pics. If just...
Little different than many you see with that delicate spoon carving. Circa 1880 I would think. Having trouble telling the wood. Kind of looks like...
They look like paintings to me. As to style it is kind of hard to pin down ...... They are stylized decorative portraits and your MCM dating is...
Back in the days when parlor oil lamps were popular (70s or so), it was pretty easy to find people who could paint matching shades pretty...
Might it be be Robt. on the stretcher before Thompson? I think I can see obt for sure.
No expert here but think it is quite a bit older than that. You can tell the burner has been replaced but the rest looks old. Would not be...
This is one of the more unusual piano benches I have seen. Finding the maker would be next to impossible unless you run across another marked...
Such a cool story. Just goes to show how having the right eye for art makes all the difference....
I also think all American. That table leg configuration is not unknown among American makers.
I also think Mexican. Such stuff was in the import stores in the 70s and 80s.
Dining table is circa 1900. Can't see the chairs well enough to tell age. Look like they may be T-backs. If so, they would be late teens-twenties....
A lot of paintings were imported unstretched. That would explain the sticker being under the stretcher.
Have seen some pieces intentionally stripped of silver. Most still have some residual silver in places as this appears.
Similar but not the same. Both Limbert and Stickley Bros. had caned pieces in their lines but the subject chairs are not either of theirs.
Yep .... Mexico.
Fairly typical for artists to paint on flat canvas tacked to an easel. First painting sort of looks like the Empire state building but might just...
The subject and execution is rather formulaic. I can show you thousands of paintings with trees on either side and water down the middle. The...
At that size and being a European import, it is likely a dept. store sofa painting. Does it have a frame? Might help to date it.
This is what they look like. This is available from the company in the link for 50 cents. Though, as I said, easy to make your own. [IMG]...
Terry is right. Those plugs usually have a round thin cardboard insert in the end with slots to fit over the prongs. It is easy to make a new one.
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