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Hi, I have this chair and no one can seem to tell me what it is or if it may be worth anything. It is a folding chair and have engraved in the back "Italy". Could you please help me out with this issue? This is called a Valet Chair. It is used for hanging pieces of a Man's suit. This particular Valet chair is worth around $20.

I am having trouble finding any info on a shelf that converts to a table, that i recently aquired. I am not a collector i just really liked this piece. Any help you can provide would be much appreciated You have what appears to be an Oak Victorian Combination Shelf Table that was either made by (or design borrowed from) The Combination Table Company out of Bryan, OH. The shelf/table was patented in 1893 and 1896. Your piece has a nice stick and ball design on the side, which along with other minor variations, differs from the typical pieces found by the CTC. Your table is in obvious need of restoration. In restored condition, it could fetch $500-650 at a good auction. As we do when a reader sends in information that drastically contradicts our estimate, we provide information that informed our estimate and any new information that we find since the estimate. Our original article was written in 2011 in the midst of the great recession. 1998: Harry Rinker, noted furniture exper...

If you have a Lamp, Watercolor (Gouache), Bookends or Statue signed Kupur,  I can give you it's origin. Artist/Sculptor Frederick Cooper opened a studio in Chicago in 1923 specializing in Watercolors and Statues. At some point thereafter, he began producing lamps made from the sculptures/statues he was creating. This aspect of the business eventually took over most of his operation. In 1945, Cooper retired and sold the business, which kept his namesake. It turns out that as recently as the 1990's, Frederick Cooper Studios still controlled the trademark name "Kupur".  All of the water colors, lamps and statues that I have seen signed "Kupur" are similar is signature style and are on works from approximately the 1930's-1950's. Most often a hyphen (-) is at the beginning and end of the signature. It is of my opinion that once Cooper retired, the "Kupur" line and signatures eventually were phased out while the company went on to have some suc...

I finally got to my January Issue of The Maine Antique Digest. In the Help Needed section, there was a bench that a reader wanted identified. The CB mark is for The Conant-Ball Company out of Gardner, Mass. They made furniture from the late 19th c until 1980.

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Hi Chris, Grandma got this when she was young in San Francisco Name on vase is jollant. Bottom has stamp franqaise? feels like metal vase What you appear to have here is an Art Nouveau bronze gilded lamp base by the French Artist Jules Jouant (1882-1921). The base has a foundry mark "Fabrication Francaise" These items were recasted French Bronzes available for sale/export. The hole in the bottom would have had a bolt that connected it to a wood base. The top would have held the lamp fixture. Some of Jouant's works do quite well in the auction market. I could not find this exact piece.

Hello, I enjoy looking at your blog site. It is very informative. Can you help me find the manufacture of an old package sealer I recently purchased. The label reads "National Package Sealer" although the manufactures name is distorted. You can read that the company was located in New York. Any information you can provide would be appreciated. You have the base of a package sealer made by The National Binding Machine Company of New York.