Antiques, antiques auctions, recent purchases and discussion - Page 4

Auction last night, picked up 2 nice pieces:


Flame mahogany bowfront 5 drawer chest. Keys and locks work. Its small, about 42in tall x 22in wide. Had to fight for it, its much nicer than the shitty auction pic. I'll take some photos once I give it a clean and place it.




This little side table. The patina is actually super nice, but the photo make it look like caked polyurethane. Again, will photograph.





And picked up this print recently. Really nice frame job from a shop in London.

I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing its 1910 - 1935. I'm leaning early, it has wear on the drawer rails that make it dip when closed and seem misaligned. That takes time to develop unless it was heavily used. It's a minor repair but does help place its age.

Goddam, that's a pretty big hog on that dude.

It's true, I do buy very diverse stuff. My house is not huge, maybe 3500+ sq feet. I think the marriage comes from diversity. If everything was Victorian and I bring in some Asian cabinet it would look off, but when everything is a mix of periods and styles it melds. My house might not suit everyone's taste, but I buy what I like often with no thought of where it will actually go in the house.


By the way, here is that chest from a previous post:'






And this is a small arts and crafts cherry table/plant stand I got recently:


Edited by idfnl - 3/1/13 at 1:23pm

I have no idea, but it was a decent craftsman, the fit and finish is quite good. Its a very hard cherry wood, you can tell it was well thought thru.

Ha ha, you can, but would it change your thoughts if you knew that table served as a transition from my kitchen area to dining room? Again, I have strange taste in decor but folks that see my home say it works. You'd never think a bedroom cabinet like that would work in that spot but it seems to. Anyway, the copper pot and wooden Scandinavian cheese plate do fit the space. I have some Delft blue pottery I can place there, I haven't tried it.


That rug is an Afgnan tribal, I can take some pics of it. Its a nice rug but not terribly valuable. The most valuable carpet I have it shredded to shit, its a Ferahan Sarouk from the 1880's and is worth thousands. My father (useless) suggested I throw it away. I love that carpet, it has tons of character.

3500 sf in my area is a pool house. There are numerous 10,000 sf houses around me.

The first time I saw it, I thought it was oak as well but the guy I got it from swore it was cherry. Can cherry be sawn in a way to produce that effect? You make a good point that oak is more common for this style.


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