Yeah, bad BOO BOO there, worse than Ruth! if that's possible!
Easy one for me, Ruth's box, auction sale in 2010, my opening bid was almost 3 times the high estimate which i felt sure would be enough, it...
GREAT! I'd say same form & era, late 18th -early 19th century on both plus, the one at pook has it's feet ended out which lowers price. Add in a...
Naturally, there are reproductions that are built by hand EXACTLY the way it was done in the 18th century. Jeffrey Greene in Newport RI has been...
Well, prices are all over the place on repro colonial furniture, auctions, retail settings, etc. If it was built by a known high quality maker...
A chair similar to yours is coming to market this week, your chair could be more valuable than first thought, plus yours is in better condition,...
A Line by Line repro of the Townsend chest by Kindel coming to market this week at Pook. Interesting that there are aprox. 8 of these chest signed...
Yep, I think that's probably correct, men's dresser. Pie-food safes are a whole other thing. The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, did a...
No, isn't a pie/food safe.
Yeah, once you start messing with old furniture, it can get ugly in a hurry, no doubt! A change in drawer/door pulls or a nice refinish is fine...
True, it takes an in person examination by someone who knows what they are looking at to authenticate old furniture, just the way it is....
A couple more Spitler painted pieces, although he worked in Virginia in last quarter 18th- 1st quarter 19th century, his stuff has an almost...
The world record for a single piece of southern painted furniture is a Johannes Spitler (german/swiss immigrant) circa 1774 yellow pine painted...
Yeah, well, maybe not, although it does seem to be built out of southern yellow (hard) pine. Tell you what though, if there is a depression in...
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