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PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
Eileen Dubrow has exhaustively combined all original catalog material from major American furniture manufacturers of the 1880s and '90s. This period was American's hey day of growth, and its furniture is the fastest growing field of collecting today.
This book will enable the reader to identify makers and provide an indication of other pieces available. This book presents a fascinating study showing hundreds of examples covering furniture for the dining room, parlour, library, bedroom (brass beds), and office (a tremendous number of variations of roll top desks), including rattan and children's furniture.
These pieces are still available in the market place at reasonable prices and are superbly crafted. This book contains a price reference guide.
2000 illustrations
OUR NOTES:
From the inside cover:
. because he always asks, Who made it?, When?, How was it made?..
The examples in this book enable the reader to identify the makers of some of the machine-made furniture produced in America between 1875 and 1905.
All illustrations are taken from the manufacturers original catalogs, advertisements, or handbills. A list of the dated catalogs and magazines from which the examples were taken is at the end of the book.
TOPICS COVERED:
(If you need to ID an antique piece of furniture, THIS is your book. it features hundreds and hundreds of photos and descriptions from actual company catalogs/ sales brochures. Ive outlined a mere sampling of the listings below.)
MACHINERY used in furniture making
PARLOR/ LIBRARY Furniture (Parlour)
. desks, book cases, cylinder desk, rolltop desks, dropfront, secretary, library tables, china cabinets, settees, Morris chairs, oak rockers, Hartley Chairs and Lounges, couches, sofa beds, student chairs, parlor suites, Stikley Brandt Furniture, marble top tables
BEDROOM Furniture:
. dressers, chamber suites, washstand/ commode, chiffonier, dressing case, folding bed, brass/iron beds, mirrors, wardrobes, headboards, baseboards, canopy, cribs, tables, daybeds
DINING ROOM furniture:
Tables, Sideboards, Cupboards, Buffets, Quartered Oak, Mahogany, Cherry, Walnut, multiple examples of various chair catalogs
OFFICE Furniture:
Chicago Desk Company, bank counters, record case, check desk, directory table, wall desk, curtain desk, cylinder desk, library desks and tables, unusual book cases on wheels, including legal case, cabinet case and standard case, revolving cases from Tyler, waybill press, office cabinets, filing cabinets, page after page of chairs, cabinet secretaries, rotary office desks, ladies secretary
CHILD furniture:
carriages, Toy wagons, high chair, folding chairs, cabinet chairs, Eastlake style, chamber furniture (baby cribs) Iron, brass rocking cribs, rocker cradles, galloping rocking horses
INVALID chairs and supplies
ROCKING chairs
FOLDING chairs
HALL TREES, MIRRORS, MANTLES
RATTAN & OUTDOOR FURNITURE
Much more that time and space do not permit listing.
---- copyright 2004, Collector Bookstore
