Mouse Carved On Furniture
In fact just by looking at the pieces most avid collectors of robert thompson s furniture can tell which craftsman made the piece.
Mouse carved on furniture. Mouseman furniture always has the distinctive hand carved mouse running up chair and table legs and always carved in a good quality english oak. It is a classic exercise in branding. It s not made by committee.
The mouse has also changed over time. Robert mouseman thompson 7 may 1876 8 december 1955 was a british furniture maker. Even though robert thompson adopted the mouse as his trademark not all the furniture created in the early years had it.
Learn all about the mouseman of kilburn from our audio visual display then browse our gift shop where you can purchase any of the. Each piece of mouseman furniture is truly unique. He was born and lived in kilburn north yorkshire england where he set up a business manufacturing oak furniture which featured a carved mouse on almost every piece.
From then on thompson s furniture has carried the mouseman label and the characteristic little carved mouse somewhere on the piece. May 25 2020 explore beckie campbell s board robert mousey mouseman thompson on pinterest. This iconic design was fist created by robert thompson who born in 1876 and was the son of a local joiner.