Antique Furniture Makers Stamps

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Antique furniture makers stamps. But whether you are looking for a piece of antique furniture for your home or looking for something to sell on. See more ideas about labels furniture maker makers mark. There s no shortage of resources however to help you learn about the company that made your favorite antique chair or table what else it made and how to identify its work.

Antique books and fellow collectors can provide a wealth of information. Educate yourself about the historical periods of furniture making using a history book with plenty of pictures. How to identify real antique carnival glass.

Examples are chippendale mid to late 1700s empire 1830 to 1850 and victorian 1850 to 1910. Furniture labels and marks have been used since the 19th century and the number of marks out there is mind boggling in his book arts and crafts shopmarks author bruce e. Your antique may be easily identified as belonging in one specific period by the style of the piece.

Johnson noted that more than 1 300 marks or shopmarks were used from 1895 1940 by artists and furniture makers in the arts crafts movement alone and that doesn t. For instance one website antique marks has more than 10 000 images of maker s marks and trademarks found on antique pottery and porcelain. Such a marking or label may have been placed inside a drawer on an old dresser on.

Furniture making in america in the 19th century ranged from the small shop like that of duncan phyfe in downtown new york at the turn of the century to the huge factories of grand rapids and buffalo at the turn of the next century. A telltale sign of the furniture s maker is a manufacturing tag label or stamp bearing the name of the creator. In other words more vintage furniture is acquired for its beauty and function rather than the profit potential of a piece.

Antique furniture can remain beautiful long after the maker is gone and forgotten. Thanks to the popularity of television shows such as antiques roadshow and online auction websites such as ebay many now have a heightened awareness of the potential value of the furniture in their attic. The first step.