Featured Beautiful Vanity! 1940's?

I fell in love with this vanity and had to have it. Bought it at an auction.

I'm guessing 1940's but I truly don't have an idea.

Isn't she a beaut!

 

I would actually date it about 20 years earlier - 1920's. But it is possible that it was a bit later - it looks like 1920's MishMash Revival with the buddings of 1930s Art Deco - what I would call "in a local vernacular"................but that's ME - see what those who know say!!

 

That would be neat! I think it is in very good condition if it was from the 1920's!

I just had to have it, I'm in love. I considered painting it because it really doesn't go with my decor but I can't bring myself to do it lol.

 

Sassy, I can see why you are "in love" with it.

I really like the vanity . . . but I dearly love the mirror (including the carved half-frame for the mirror).

Just curious but . . . I am wondering why that top drawer on the left in the photo is a different color (not yellow). It looks like it is a wood finish like the rest of the unpainted surfaces.

 

I wonder that myself! The other drawer on the top also has a different colour than the rest of the wood, but not as pronounced as the darker drawer. It looks identical to the other drawers when you look up close, just a different colour.

 

The top drawer on the right may have been exposed to more sun.

The other 4 drawers don't look quite right.
Are the 4 drawers actually wood?
Looks like contact paper, see the ripples - or is the veneer starting to peel?


The knobs look like they have been replaced in the 1970s. They look good on it, but may not be original.

Oh and I was thinking 1930s.

 

I think Currahee is still in business. You might email them and ask.
Patd

 

The addressee on the label, Abe Mann, was listed as the Selling Agent for Currahee Furniture in the 1937-38 American Jewish Times. Mann was shown as Selling Agent for several other furniture manufacturers, as well, (until at least 1945) operating from a showroom/sales location, The American Furniture Mart, at 206 Lexington Ave in NYC.

from: 1937-38 The American Jewish times
https://archive.org/details/americanjewishti160unse

Currahee Furniture itself was started in 1925 in Toccoa, GA:

from The Iron Age, Volume 116, David Williams, 1925:
The Currahee Furniture Co has begun the erection of a new plant, 60 x 640(?) (illegible) feet, for the manufacture of furniture specialties, and will install machinery to give employment to about 100. George D. Trogdon is manager.

https://books.google.com/books?id=r05LAQAAIAAJ&q="currahee+furniture"+"toccoa+ga"&dq="currahee+furniture"+"toccoa+ga"&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjpmbKSnpzWAhUJxCYKHabiCG4Q6AEINTAD

Currahee Furniture was sold in 1953:

LULLABYE BUYS CURRAHEE; Georgia Plant to Be Converted to Juvenile Furniture Lines
SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES - APRIL 11, 1953
http://www.nytimes.com/1953/04/11/a...eorgia-plant-to-be-converted-to-juvenile.html

The plant continued to operate in Toccoa, but it was no longer called Currahee, and it employed many fewer people.

Lullabye in turn was sold in 1968:
Sale of the Lullabye Furniture Corp., which employs about 200 persons at Stevens Point and another 50 at a plant in Toccoa, Ga., to the Simmons Co. of New York City in an outright cash deal was announced recently in a joint statement by the two firms. ' Simmons said that Lullabye. a manufacturer of juvenile furniture, would continue operations with substantially the same personnel.
Janesville Daily Gazette, Janesville, Wisconsin · Page 10
January 4, 1968
from: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/10175666/

The Currahee Furniture Co that Patd mentions above is a different entity.

 

20s or so seems about right. Agree that the knobs are replaced.

 

I like it as well.

And I really love the photo of the tree on the mirror.

Like a painting!

 

Wow I keep being blown away by how much information you guys are able to provide!! Thank you so much!

I've unfortunately come to the conclusion that this vanity is NOT going to fit in my rather small makeup room Therefore I am going to be selling it.

It does look like the veneer is warping on some of the drawers so it may end up being a repainting project. I'm really not sure what to do with it, it's such a lovely piece I'm afraid of screwing it up so it will probably sit for a good long while before I'm brave enough to tackle it.

 

Yeah, this happens a lot more than people think, fall in lust with some furniture form only to discover when you get it home it's not gonna happen in space provided. This is why it's always a good idea to carry a small pocket tape measure with you, ditto a pocket LED light as well, i never leave home without them! when going to look at furniture.
If you just bought the piece, I'd let it be for awhile as well, sometimes solutions present themselves more clearly later.