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Comment by Craig Phillips / B & C Emporium on November 10, 2009 at 9:39am

Yes we made the Jacobean style by the truck loads right now it is a dead style to sell right now, kind of like the ducan phyfee drop leaf tables & chair sets, got to be cheap to sell, or just the right day!
This one, replacement cost $700-1000. don't know where I could find one for that, but it is just a number
Craig

Comment by VinceJ on November 10, 2009 at 3:51am

Thanks Craig, Vicki...

Yes, craig, the ovals look applied to solid carved doors.
1920's it is... but price?
We're looking at this for "replacement cost" for estate.

Had a lot similar, but non with risers and feet so fancifully carved, and the carvings on door are very neat, machine done, hand finished looks right.

Were there Americans making this jacobean style much in the heyday?.

Comment by Craig Phillips / B & C Emporium on November 8, 2009 at 2:26pm

No Vicki, I would say 1920's or later English or at least European, hardware calls it could have been shipped here, isn't Canada part of Great Britian?
English, machine carved I believe. are you sure the ovals on the face of the doors and the carved sections are the same pc? looks raised compaired to the carved sctions and the joints in the boards look different
Craig Phillips
B & C Emporium

Comment by vicki hufstetler on November 8, 2009 at 12:10pm

Hi Vince, I think this is much older than the 1920's, More of the Victorian Era. If the client purchased it in Canada there is a big possibility that it is English. Most of the Canadian Antiques that I have seen are actually English. So you would be correct. I also haven't seen this style in any American Pieces of the same time period. Craig would probably know more than I.

Comment by VinceJ on November 7, 2009 at 9:14pm

Hi, custome has this sideboard..
measueres 60" length; 24" depth; 55" height in total (39" + 16" at back).
I'm curious as to price or perhaps makers?
I note two items of interest, not usually seen.
1. the level of carving on the doors, highly detailed, and in solid quarter cut oak. Case is built of hardboard. with oak veneers and solids.
2. the carving on the feet and shelf risers.

I considered it british off hand... but customer says it is either Canadian or American as purchase here by grandparents. Looks like probably aroun 1920's or so? (Wish I had rest of set).
Can anyone help with where this could be from, and price?

thanks.

Comment by tomsantiquesetcetera on July 15, 2009 at 7:26pm

David, usually a settee consisted of one 2-person bench (more recently called a love-seat) plus two single side chairs of matching design. Over the years they become separated.
I think what Craig means is that we need to see better pictures. Drape a sheet over the back of the settee so we can see it.. Right now you can't tell where it ends and the items in back begin!
Also, most settees had upholstered seats AND backs. During the Arts and Crafts movement (which yours isn't) settees had upholstered seats with wood backs.
As for pictures, your local library should have antique furniture books if you can't find it on Google.

Comment by Craig Phillips / B & C Emporium on July 15, 2009 at 3:21pm

david the backs would have been just upholstered as well as the seat,

Take a hang a sheet behind the back so we can see details the sheet under the legs help but does not help the top of the bench
Craig

Comment by David Gurevitz on July 15, 2009 at 1:59pm

My wife brought home from a Garage Sale a Settee. Kind of like a large wooden double chair. It was missing it's seat part and in pretty bad shape with some pieces missing and in need of a good sanding, staining, and poly.

After some tender loving work, I have it looking sort of decent. But not sure where to go now with the upholster work. Besides the bottom (seat part) there's two back sections that need added. Would love to see a similar version to get an idea of what it should look like.

Anyone have any ideas on where to find a picture of similar ones?

Also, any ideas on what year and/or origin we're looking at?

Thanks,

David

Comment by Bob Frassinetti on July 10, 2009 at 10:44am

Antique furniture represents a type of product and production other than the one prevalent in these modern days. However this wouldn’t be enough of a reason for its huge success and acceptance, high demand and top consumers. The fact that antique furniture is so in demand relays on the fact that this is a top notch quality product. Being antique is not synonym of old in all its expressions. The old and age factor within is tied to the fact that in other historical, cultural and technological eras, the way objects were produced and the materials with which these were crafted were absolutely different to those of today.
Antique furniture has an intrinsic quality feature that lays on the fact that in previous centuries to the age of Machinery and Modern Industry, the production process of objects had as a milestone the individual ability and capability of the master craftman who worked with solid pieces of wood with nothing more than a sharp tool and his gifted and trained hands, together with a sharp eye for style and design. There were no further machines nor computers with which to design and conceive a product, or even with which to produce it. Nor there were other artificial –or man created wood looking and feeling materials- prime products with which to create these objects.
This indication is not a judgmental objection; this is just an objective fact taken out of reality. The differential technique and technology level achieved limited the horizon of possibilities and innovations. To us, looking from the present back into those primitive technological days, the final product of such sophistication, delicacy and quality is even more valuable, because we value the object in terms of comparison and reflection of our own known world.
Antique furniture has a special kind of finish, but also a very particular sort of feel to the tact, for the natural aging of the object has impacted on the piece as a whole producing a particular style and shine to the wood, the metal and the detail.
This furniture of yore, especially those of the Renaissance [1] and the beginning of Modernity brought back a sense of beauty that had been left aside during the Middle Age in Europe, began to focus on sophistication and luxury. In a retrospective analysis we can point out the fact that these objects express the milestone for any further aesthetic revolution and design.
But European antique furniture is not the only coveted relic, Asian, Hindu, Arabic furniture as early as the 6th century are outstanding treasures [2] of style and sophistication.
Yet these are not the only styles of furniture that can be considered antique. We needn’t go back to the beginning of times, it is generally accepted within the world of antique furniture to trace a division line between objects that were crafted without the aid of machinery and those that were, between hand made and those industrially made; between those who were produced by an individual artisan in a work shop or those that were manufactured by means of a serial organization of production by a number if collaborating workers.
1830 was set as a hinge landmark for production (though it doesn’t apply rigorously everywhere and to every kind of product). The origin of this particular date can be traced back to the United States, when in 1930 the US government issued a law explicating the fact that for their tax income they considered that 100 year old objects were antiques and so they could be admitted duty free into the U.S.
All and all this is a perspective. And as such, we prefer to complement it with the prior definition in which it’s stated the fact that a delimiting line could also be the way the object was produced.
If applying the combined definition, we can approach Argentine and most South American countries antiques in a better form, for most of these young nations became such during the early decades of the 19th century, and the industrial revolution did not reach these far away lands way into the last quarter of that century and some places even the early 20th century. Hence the coveted craftsmanship features we described above can be found as late as the first years of the 1900s.
As social products, antique furniture is in many ways a reflection of a determined state of culture in a specific location –at least it was until the upcoming of globalization-.
Their value doesn’t just lay on the fact that they were produced many years ago, there’s of course an aesthetic distinction that sets a determined object apart including the marks the pass of time has left on the object in question.
That’s why some commoner furniture such as school desks, kitchen tables or rocking chairs are coveted at the same time some other people prefer a Louis XVI styled furniture. What was a working class desk made out of a strong wood as oak, though originally roughly made, has now a styled appearance for the pass of time and the use has soften and lined out a one of a kind polish.
The world of antique furniture is a vast universe of styles, taste and detail. To approach it successfully there’s an advisee trinity: knowledge, taste and a sharp eye, that will aid you in a profitable and long lasting investment in style and quality.

Bob Frassinetti, Art and Antique Dealer Travelling the south of South America, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay

Comment by Hazel Williams on June 29, 2009 at 5:08pm

I live in Wales in the UK and have been given an old, delapitated, very sorry for itself, nursing chair with JS and 09 carved on the back. Whilst surfing the net, I saw the identical JS carved on a chair owned by one of your members and wondered how a chair in America could have the same lettering as mine. Any ideas on the JS? I've also posted this query on the main forum where it was suggested I post it here too. Thanks in anticipation of replies!

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