Featured Finds Thread

I agree with you, Brad - believe the '40s was the heyday for these sets, and am sure they'd pretty much fallen out of favor by the late '50s, as evidenced by the freakish bed, an incongruous combination of waterfall and 'Colonial' cannonball, in this '58 ad:



~Cheryl

 

In the ad, on the left side of the bed, isn't that a nightstand?

 

The first ad.

 

Got...read the ad.

 

How cool it is that you have cataloged all these ads! That last set is pretty bizarre. I also like the fact that it is pictured along side a sleek modern design to the left. Just shows how styles evolved and persisted despite new trends.

I have always found it interesting that in the 50s and 60s, colonial revival was as popular or more so than modern. Our childhood home had restrained modern furniture while a lot of my friend's families had colonial furnishings in theirs. I remember my mom saying how awful she thought their houses were. I am sure they thought ours was cheap and tacky looking!

 

Hi,
I refinished my in-laws parent's bedroom suite. It is a waterfall pattern that I thought was early 1930s turns out they bought the set in 1936. They had an estate sale and everything sold but the bedroom suite. The wife died in 1962 and the set had not been dusted but once a year. The sale was in 1999. Everyone thought it had a brown suede finish. I took the set and stripped it. It was a wonderful walnut, cherry and blond mahogany finish with striping of pear wood and ebony. I cleaned the handles and they were brass with bright red paint. The very somber set looked like a glamorous Hollywood design when I was done with the refinishing. All of a sudden six members of the family all said they would like to have it. Before it was redone no one wanted any part of it. I would have traded it for the 1922 walnut set they had originally but it was sold. They only thing I did was make it fit a queen size instead of the double which it was. That meant losing the two side panels, other wise it is just the way they had it.
greg

 

I wish I had your talent for restoration, Gregg... my 89 year-old uncle has an awesome set he uses, high boy, long dresser with rectangular mirror, nightstand, vanity, and bedframe.... has to be 30s or 40s, maybe even 20s. This is the nightstand I was keeping the cat food in. I got it at a yard sale for $5. It was in very good shape until my husband threw out our old refrigerator and banged it up.... the know had to be replaced, and he chipped a corner. Sigh.

Now the top of this curves, but I think this is more retro era with, circa 40s, while the other one I have now is circa 30s. This is going to my sister's yard sale in August. Do you think a furniture marker would help the corner?

 

1920s bedroom sets

https://www.google.com/search?q=192...SCQeF7wqS699cERBlHUyF0EL3&q=1920s bedroom set

 

1930s bedrooms sets
https://www.google.com/search?q=192...uoAYm4-QGym5SIDw#tbm=isch&q=1930s+bedroom+set

 

1940s bedroom sets
https://www.google.com/search?q=194...X&ved=0CB0QsARqFQoTCLvygsbJ3cYCFQh5Pgod3N8MIw

It is amazing to look at the transitions.... sorry, I couldn't get all three links on one post.

 

Hey, that is the set we have in our attic! Guessing we will have to give it away. It is very clunky, indeed! Neat to see the ad.

 

If it's one of those cannonball disasters like the ad, I don't want to know about it.

 

The bad frame has cannon balls, but the other pieces in the ad are cool.

 

Just get a chainsaw out and do a Clark Griswold.

 

It is not too difficult to splice in some new veneer into that corner. However, it will always look like a repair since it is impossible to match perfectly. If you had the original piece, it would be a much better repair. Since the door is very plain, why not fill it with putty, sand smooth, and paint the door for a pop of color? It would sell better in my neck of the woods that way.

 

Over 100 miles today and all I got was a handful of plastic bits

Eight or nine of the same piece. Maybe the maker was close to this area?

 

The Minnesota version of Mah Jhong?

 

So it's winter summer fall?

 

Oh - now I see that the blue are Chinese characters. I don't recall mah jhong using "seasons" - maybe another game?

 

A dominos-like game, maybe?