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| Hello everyone. I was left this china cabinet by my mother in law. She collected antiques but I do not know anything about them. I was hoping someone could help me to to find out anything at all about this. I live about 1000 miles from her home so I am try to sell it rather than take it with me, but I have no clue what to price it at. The only thing I know about it is a woman from an estate sale told me the glass is hand blown which is rare. Other than that, I know nothing. Please help! I tried to post multiple pictures of the cabinet but it will only let me post one.... |
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| If you put the photos in a photobucket album you can post more than one (copy and paste the HTML code) but otherwise, just reply to your own thread and add a photo each time. On the basis of this photo, it is not looking all that special to me, but if it is, photos of the back, the drawer joints, the hardware would show it. I would price it at whatever "vintage" china cabinets are going for in that area. Karin L |
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| To be honest, it doesn't look really antique to me. And I'm curious about the windows being "hand blown" glass, as as far as I am aware pane glass is not blown, it's spun, and has telltale "bullseyes" unless the pane was large enough for them to be cut off. |
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| I think my sister has one very much like this cabinet, it was purchased at a farm auction 48 years ago and was by no means new then. I think the hardware on this one is not original and right below the knobs & back plates is a key hole. Could the glass be like that used in old windows and picture frames? I may visit my sis and take a picture of her cabinet for comparison. |
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- Posted by lazygardens (My Page) on Tue, Jan 29, 13 at 14:12
| I have its sibling!!!!! It's a standard kitchen cabinet tarted up with some curvy Art Noveau-ish rounded moldings on the doors to be trendy and stylish. Mine is oak, with the same moldings on the doors and bottom, same rosette at the lock, but mine has two rows of drawers (two small, one full width) between the doors. Your door pulls are not original. Mine had no pulls and no marks where a pull would have been. They may have had "push-open" catches. Mine also has old glass in it - the slightly wavery stuff with the tiny occasional stretched-out bubbles. That is NOT hand blown, it's the kind of mass-produced glass they made by pulling a sheet of glass up out of a cauldron of molten glass. Your cabinet doesn't look like oak - it could be walnut, poplar, butternut, or any of the other common wood species. Mine was identified by the seller, a knowledgeable dealer, as from 1900-1910 - apparently the way the panels of the doors are rounded had a short life because of the machinery it took to make it, and because the Art Noveau trend died out. I forget what I paid for mine, but it's a well-made vintage cabinet with rather nice wood. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Same cabinet, but done as Art Deco style
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- Posted by dreamgoddess (My Page) on Wed, Jan 30, 13 at 21:56
| Your piece looks similar to a piece I inherited from my grandmother, but she always called it a pie safe. However, instead of glass at the top, mine has screen in the doors. Mine also has the two drawers over the bottom cabinet. I believe my grandmother bought her piece sometime during the 1930's to 1940's. |
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- Posted by mama_goose 6/Southern Ohio (My Page) on Tue, Feb 5, 13 at 23:17
This post was edited by mama_goose on Tue, Feb 5, 13 at 23:47
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