Featured Finds Thread

Found some stuff today at garage sale, bottles, a glass and pottery reference book, the clear Gordon's dry gin is from London England , the Corby's is 1948, and the little one is a beer from Drewery's and has 6 stars and a skeleton key on it .

 

I haven't bought these chairs... yet!

Something about them is lovely but I'm not sure are they a good buy?
They are 1850-1870s biedermeier chairs. Obviously if I bought them, I'd re-upholster the seats with cognac-coloured leather like they would've been originally.

Are they worth 180$ + the leather and the effort?

 

If yer gonna use em and enjoy em....why not.
If you need to eat......then no !

 

I can't see the front so really can't evaluate these based on appearance. However, if nice attractive true biedermeier chairs, the price is relatively cheap if buying for yourself. Here are the ebay listings for similar......

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odk...+chairs.TRS0&_nkw=biedermeier+chairs&_sacat=0

 

Here:

 

flip them over and take a pic ,so we can see underneath as that is where more info is. maybe a pic of the screws used

 

I don't actually know the age of the chairs, but they were described as "old" so I assumed they'd be 1800s.
Actual 1850s country-style biedermeier chairs aren't terribly expensive when they are in bad paint so even though these are in good shape I assumed they would be old, haven't seen reproductions of this style before.

 

looks like all new-ish material to me 1970's. maybe they have been rebuilt, i see what might be old wood block stains in the corners

 

Could be, I didn't think about that. I had a similar black biedermeier chair that had its original upholstery (filled with horse hair) and that chair cost about 70$ so I assumed these would be old too just reupholstered and based on price it made sense.

 

my experience with chairs like this wasn't good, i was paid 2 for fixing a computer he wanted $ 40 each at the pawn shop, he had replaced angled wood blocks , used linseed oil to shine them up .and covered a board with old looking material ,and screwed it to the blocks , they fell apart after a few years

 

red yellow green my fav and motorcycle related also, awesome

 

nice find Terry!

 

Pretty sweet.

 

Some of my latest finds part 1.
>Input is welcome!

 

Some of my latest finds part 2.
>The fans were given to me. The brown one has a Bakelite base and I don't recall seeing one with an aircraft type prop blade like that.
>Odd that the glass tray has US coins but there are statements in pounds... I like these trays and have quite a few.
>Nothing on the back of the ashtray.
>Input is welcome!
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Some of my latest finds part 3.
>Input is welcome!
>Note that the group photo probably has that sailor in it. There were a number of photos and other things tucked into his boot camp book.
>I was hoping the Lincoln bookends were made in Jersey City, NJ, as many such things were, but these may have had a label now missing.
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Some of my latest finds part 4.
>Input is welcome!
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Some of my latest finds part 5.
>Input is welcome!
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The photo album is brand new and I'll probably use it for my personal Navy photos so they are all in one place for my boys and grand-kids.
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Some cool finds KOT! I love those pottery deer and the photo album