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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ghopper1924, post: 920624, member: 5170&quot;]&quot;America did NOT have a single piece of american built furniture in ANY major museum until the late 1920s. It was not considered worthy of collecting until the 20th century.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose the New York Victorians <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />)) like Belter, Meeks, Horner, Pottier &amp; Stymus etc. were considered to be offshoots of Rococo Revival, Renaissance Revival, etc. from European models? Don&#039;t know how else to explain their absence from museums until...when? the mid 20th century?.&nbsp; Seems like G. Stickley would have afforded the U.S. a place in the world&#039;s museums before the 1920s as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Evidently the U.S. was not the only country with a dim view about U.S. furniture. A crying shame, like A.J. said.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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