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<p>[QUOTE="bosko69, post: 4752966, member: 16283"]We don't find any 17th,18th or much early 19th century furniture on the West Coast.</p><p> Here's the earliest (or one of,this is debatable) documented piece of American made furniture:Turned cherry chair,built in the Chesapeake region Virginia,C 1640-1660 & is in fact the earliest known piece of southern furniture extant... this chair could be the earliest known piece of American furniture.Sold at Christies a few years ago (before true provenance was established)to the Houston Museum for a real bargain- 288k. If the recent (updated research) is correct, this chair is now in the 'priceless category'.(Cited:<a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/earliest-known-piece-of-american-furniture.19315/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/earliest-known-piece-of-american-furniture.19315/">https://www.antiquers.com/threads/earliest-known-piece-of-american-furniture.19315/</a>)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]413167[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bosko69, post: 4752966, member: 16283"]We don't find any 17th,18th or much early 19th century furniture on the West Coast. Here's the earliest (or one of,this is debatable) documented piece of American made furniture:Turned cherry chair,built in the Chesapeake region Virginia,C 1640-1660 & is in fact the earliest known piece of southern furniture extant... this chair could be the earliest known piece of American furniture.Sold at Christies a few years ago (before true provenance was established)to the Houston Museum for a real bargain- 288k. If the recent (updated research) is correct, this chair is now in the 'priceless category'.(Cited:[URL]https://www.antiquers.com/threads/earliest-known-piece-of-american-furniture.19315/[/URL]) [ATTACH=full]413167[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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