Furniture’s Bum Rap: Mr. Eastlake was Innocent
This Eastlake-style secretary shows the geometric precision and simplicity of Eastlake’s ideas. According to some older and antique furniture dealers and collectors, there is one style from the 19th...
View ArticleAuction Report: Gettysburg Cannon Tops Dancy-Polk House Auction
This authentic Civil War cannon, fired by Union troops at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, topped the Dancy-Polk auction with $86,250. DECATUR, Ala. — An authentic Civil War cannon, fired by Union...
View ArticleRoseville Pottery, Brilliant Cut Glass Collections to lead Multi-Estate Auction
Some 200 pieces of Roseville pottery from the estate of Dr. Ray Gregory, a general surgeon from Corinth, Miss., including these lovely jardinières, will headline a fall antique extravaganza auction...
View ArticleHearing Sounds From Your Furniture? It May Be Telling You Something
The space around this china cabinet door indicates the cabinet is not sitting level and the door probably sticks or scrapes. The cabinet just needs to be leveled. Sometimes it seems that there just...
View ArticleIn Christmases Past, Wicker Made the List
Add a few millennia and you’ll find the historical roots of this Victorian wicker sleigh. In the past, Christmas was a much simpler time, and the emphasis was more on family, church and community...
View ArticleFurniture French: You May Already Speak It
A chifferobe’s name is a combination of two words: “wardrobe” and chiffonier, the French term for a tall chest of drawers. If you like older and antique furniture, you may have already acquired another...
View ArticleWatch Your Names: There’s No Such Thing as ‘Victorian Style’
This is an extreme example of the Italian style from Italy, 1939. (Photo: LiveAuctioneers.com/Austin Auction Gallery) Have you ever noticed that when it comes to names and descriptions of older and...
View ArticleAntiques Auction Forum Podcast: Richard Wright on the Harry Bertoia Exhibit
The Harry Bertoia Sculpture: 15 Years at Wright exhibit is being held at the Wright gallery in New York. This exhibition showcases select works from Wright’s history of selling Bertoia at auction,...
View ArticleAsk a Worthologist: The ‘Thrift Store’ Bowl
This thrift-store find was a real winner. It’s a rare Roycroft piece from pre-1920. Gerald S. found this silver bowl at a second-hand shop. It wasn’t until later that looked at he looked closer and...
View ArticleSelling a White Elephant (or a HUGE Horse)
A month ago I did a house clean out, and sitting right there in the cramped living room, was this giant hand carved wooden rocking horse. I was driving through our town recently on a Saturday...
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