LOL @ pipes!
Alrighty then, now that i have managed to blow this thread completely apart, let's look at some early Frisian carving that is SUPPOSED to be 100%...
I would guess Lexington Chair Co was in Lexington NC which is close to High Point & a major american furniture manufacturing base back then.
Yes, Jack is a hoot! A very fine woodworker who builds some spectacular furniture in his retirement years and very knowledgeable about early...
Good point, especially in great britain, they were carving up a storm according to Jack Plane, an Irish cabinetmaker who worked in ireland &...
A working piece, at least in the furniture world is a piece that has a chance to survive, if it ain't working, it ain't gonna hang around long. I...
Yep, i am goin with Komo on this one & i know nada about bassinets.
Yep, does. Value wise prices are all over the map, if it was carved in the netherlands/germany you can buy a 17th century carved box pretty cheap,...
Well yeah! Brad will take it off your hands! Still, i don't know that i'd want to make a living selling wardrobes here.
No, not plywood, it's an english mahogany Hepplewhite server, bow front. Good chance the drawer front is veneer though.
I'd say yes, 1894 seems right to me looking at hinges, lock. This style of carving has been around for centuries.
Friesian chip carving looks like to me. Nice box. "The Frisians are a Germanic ethnic group indigenous to the coastal parts of the Netherlands...
No, Duncan Phyfe retired in 1840s but his sons tried to keep the shop going without much success & i think the shop went out of biz around 1850s....
Bottom line? If i had to pay the bills with my collecting preferences? I would starve to death, simple as that. :hungry::hungry::hungry:
LOL, AJ is talking herself into a situation here! In my case it doesn't really matter, i collect for one reason only, i like the stuff but, i am...
LOL, THAT IS NOT GOOD! for business AJ, trust me!!!
On another thread on a mission rocker i was gently trying to explain how some mission furniture (like the rocker poster had) you can't hardly give...
LOL, oh dear!!! That can't be good!
Uhhhh Ohhhh, Brad is talking like a collector now! Which, nothing wrong with that because that's what i am but not to sure if there is a profit in it.
There was some repurposing of wardrobes/armoires into entertainment centers here 10-15 years ago that housed TVs & music players but that has...
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