No, finish/surface was not original, almost never is. Yes, southern pieces generally speaking sell for more than similar form new england pieces...
So says everyone including myself from time to time. Last month there was a Virginia C. 1760 walnut tea table for sale at a small auction house...
Yeah, i hear you but, it's not making the chest that makes it an outstanding example, it's the paint decoration that does that. Paint was a big...
I am guessing you are located in Mass., if you had a chest built by say Thomas Dennis, William Serle or Robert Crosman, the nation would be...
No problem, happy to help if i can, sorry it wasn't what wife wanted but still, a very nice early QA blanket chest.
Yes to all above, your blanket chest was built 60-70 years after Aldens death. The good news though is that it is a period chest! Actually, what...
Personally, i wouldn't place a big bet on "old furniture stories", they tend to grow & be embellished as time goes along. Unless provenance can be...
If they are original cast batwing brasses with iron wire attaching to inside of drawer front ( the bails seem to be missing) then the lid should...
Yeah, did a quick google on him but, this blanket chest can't be earlier than mid 18th century so clearly he was not alive & never used or even...
The red wash on the case is not original to this piece as the dings & scrapes would show the raw pine. Can't really see the double arch moldings...
Well, i don't know who John Alden was exactly ( a pilgrim i know but not much more) but, John was long gone when this blanket chest was built,...
Hello, The feet & brasses are queen anne, the front has double arch molding common in the william & mary period, the sides of the case has a cyma...
Very nice, the walnut has taken on a reddish hue which often happens to walnut after a few centuries.
From the look of things, i am not sure how much you will be using this chair. Seems as though cats have taken possession of this chair and,...
OH LORD! no scratching! Obviously they know quality when they see it! :p The seat cover is not a problem as it's not original & replaced many...
Well, it arrived! Are you happy with the chair? Agrees on uship, smaller operators with direct contact with driver by phone/text is absolutely the...
Well, what happened, did the marble turn into a pearl? OR the thread just died quietly?
Not a clue! :p but it's a cool looking sewing stand.
Little doubt it is in fact a Crosman piece though, the tree (tree of life?) the squiggles (earth?) and of course the birds. Unusual in that the...
Probably a bit of miscommunication there, Crosman was not discovered until the 1930s by furniture scholar Esther Stevens Fraser so guesses that is...
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