Posts Tagged ‘American’
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Antique Beds Furniture
BEDS. Ancient drawings portray well developed bed types in Egypt, Assyria, Persia, Greece and Rome. Over basie structures of stone, wood, or metal were thrown animal skins and textile for softness and warmth. The framework was often well designed and adorned with inlays or appliques of metal, ivory, etc.
Egyptian [...]
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
BACKGAMMON BOARDS & TABLES - BAG TABLE - BAKELITE - BARREL CHAIR - BAROMETER CASE
BACKGAMMON BOARDS & TABLES. The game goes back to the 1750 tripod table Middle Ages, and furniture for its play appeared as soon as specialized tables came in the antique 18-19 century wood carved mother of pearl [...]
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
ABACUS. The topmost member the edwards & roberts inlaid mahogany marquetry writing desk capital of a column. See Oders.
ACACIA. A group of trees similar to the bureau mouldings locust. Some varieties
from Australia and the round reproduction tables in rosewood Sandwich Islands yield beautiful veneers ranging in color from yellow-brown to red [...]
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
ANTIQUE AMERICAN FURNITURE PERIODS AND STYLES:
As furniture in the conventional sense hardly figured in the cultures of the Indians, millefiori small handled vase with stopper any review of American work must begin with what was made for, value~1850 black walnut chest of drawers and mainly by, antique silver tankards the early [...]
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
American Furniture
The furniture of the yuang American colonies, which later became the antique cartel clock 1900 United States of America, is handsome and vigorous, and in a great many instances, original. The first civilized settlers were from Britain in the upholstered english wing chairs late
sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, but the [...]
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