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Fake, Fraud, or Genuine?: Identifying Authentic American Antique Furniture
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Price Last Updated : 2-8-2012
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Features
Paperback: 214 pages
Publisher: Bulfinch Press; 1st edition April 1, 1991
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0821218255
ISBN-13: 978-0821218259
Product Dimensions:
10.9 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
Reader Reviews
I worked hard to really read this book. It has been worth it, because it covers the basic story on how to examine a piece of furniture to determine whether or not it is really old, or even if it is old, whether or not the piece itself is original as seen today, or has been pieced together from several incomplete pieces of old furniture, or even other sources of old pieces of wood. It is fairly fascinating, but it is also a lot like studying. I seem to be coming into contact with antiques through inheritance, and while this book hasn't told me much about the source of the pieces I have, I at least now know enough to turn my furniture upside down, and inside out to find out just where it may have been before it came to me! You have to really look at the many photographs (not every one was perfectly clear no matter how hard I looked -- 1 out of 30 were unclear I estimate) while reading the narrative. And I had never realized the extent to which 18th and 19th century pieces are researched for provenence, including looking through very old advertisements in newspapers, etc., to find the names of furniture makers of the past. Quite technical, but worth the effort.
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Fake, Fraud, or Genuine?: Identifying Authentic American Antique Furniture
Hardcover
by Myrna Kaye
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Price: $74.95
on 2-8-2012
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