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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 921583, member: 5066&quot;]Not really sure on that as victorian styles are not my thing but, the first serious attempt to display american furniture permanently occurred in the late 1920s.</p><p>The director of the MET talked Mrs Russell Sage into buying the Bolles collection and donating it to the MET, considered at the time (1909) the finest collection of early american furniture known. From the MET</p><p>&quot;For those who know the American Wing today it is hard to believe that in 1909 not a single piece of American furniture was owned by the Museum. Everything was borrowed for the occasion. But before the exhibition was over, Mrs. Russell Sage had purchased from it the entire collection of Dr. Eugene Bolles and presented it to the Museum. Thus was laid the foundation for the American Wing&#039;s collection, which now numbers between nine and ten thousand individual pieces of furniture, silver, ceramics, textiles, metalwork, and architectural settings.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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