Featured Finds Thread

Wasn't me that asked but appreciate the showing. Incredible that your father's glass tops fit the furniture and agree that this is better. While the blue is cool, I find it a bit garish.

Your stand is a pretty good buy since it is in such good condition. I wonder if was originally part of a vanity. Any signs on the sides that it has been cut or modified? These elaborate waterfall pieces are often attributed to the 30s but my experience is that they are generally post-war. Here is a waterfall vanity similar in style to yours that I once had. The mirror was dated 1949 and I believed it to be original to the piece.

 

I think its probably early 1920s ,made to fill some faux Spanish or Tudor mansion. Or perhaps a hotel lobby.

 

Brad, from my research today, they made entire bedroom sets like this. I believe this is one of two nightstands.

 

I love that vanity! Always wanted one, no room.

 

Nice Waterfall piece!

 

Entirely possible. I just usually see such things as having been cut from a vanity. IMHO, it is better if it is as made.

 

It looked like the nightstand has a curved top? That surprises me as a since you couldn't put anything on top of it?

 

Johnny,

There is an entire thread about this chair over in furniture. Looks to be a copy of a 17th century Italian baroque chair.

 

Hi Marko,
Thanks for the photo of the table. I have the same one and three others, one square, two like yours. I also have 4 others in a different shape. The truth is the square is really like two of yours put to gather so it has amoeba shape. I have always loved these cobalt blue glass tables. The old Queen Mum (Elizabeth's mother) hated these blue glass since it gave everyone espescially her a bad reflection. She had tables made with a pink undertone which made everything look nice. I have a clock with the pink glass.
greg

 

Just the edges are curved, Pat. The top is flat like the sides of Brad's vanity. Gregg, my father has a mirror in the aquamarine blue with a snow scene etched in it. He said two others like it were made at his factory, one amber, one pink. I have not seen any of the old pink mirrored glass. I was at a yard sale a few years back and this lady was trying to sell everybody a huge mirror for $4. A young girl bought it to put outside, and it dawned on me after close inspection it was an old amber glass mirror. I told the girl what she had, and the yard sale seller started SCREAMING at me....she was a dealer and a he didn't realize the mirror was amber. She knew what she had given away, though. I told her to stop acreaming, she was the one who sold it for $4.

 

Is the amber or pink the same as the peach mirror? I have a peach mirror clock that I have tried to sell on and off for awhile with no takers.

Not the best pic but it does show the color of the glass. Looks more pink than I remembered it.

 

That is it...peach/amber. I saw a similar amber mirror like the $4 in an antique mall....sold for $125.

 

I will have to research the mirror colors. My brother was throwing the aquamarine glass tops out, rescued them. That goodness!

 

Hi,
That is the pink/peach color mirror. I have a very similar clock only mine is an octagon shape.
greg

 

Great finds everyone!

Agreeing with the consensus that Marko's piece is a nightstand. I used to own a 30's waterfall bedroom set with matching nightstands, almost identical to this, same mixed veneers, same handles even. They also had a curved edge off the top. I sold the nightstands a few years ago, I still have one of the dressers, if I remember next week I'll post a pick.

 

I see these often but I've no outlet for them so.....

 

The clock is pink mirrored glass, saw one on ebay like it....I knew pink mirrored glass existed because dad said he made it....must be rare in large pieces. You could always market the old nightstands as pet food storage....working for me. I just think these old pieces are works of art....my house is eclectic, it all works together for me.

 

Ah, Marko, now I understand re the curved top.

 

I have a number of old furniture-store ads showing waterfall bedroom sets, dating from the mid '30s into the late '50s, but oddly, only this one from 1944 shows or mentions a nightstand:


~Cheryl

 

I maybe wasn't clear on my comment about the elaborate waterfall sets being post-war. What I have found is that the earlier sets were generally more elegant and used real wood veneers. The post-war period brought some newer manufacturing techniques and pressure from competition for price points. You began to see more bells and whistles added to sets. This included the use of what appear to be exotic woods for detail as seen in my vanity and in Marko's nightstand. I know on mine and I am pretty sure on Marko's, the veneers are fake micro-thin laminate coatings. This is a later detail not seen on earlier sets.

This is a generalization and I am sure there are exceptions. I am sure there were some high quality all wood sets made post-war and some very elaborate sets made pre-war. I just know that I was surprised to find such a late date on my vanity. My experience is that dealers almost always peg waterfall sets to the 20s and 30s when, in fact, a lot of them are quite a bit later.