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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lauragarnet, post: 285761, member: 105&quot;]Nice find of the catalog page [USER=37]@verybrad[/USER] </p><p><br /></p><p>I was poking around to find more info about John Larkin, saving links and just taking notes, so no complete sentences in the glob of stuff I&#039;m gonna copy and paste below, if anyone wants to research further. I&#039;ll be off-line starting today for don&#039;t know how long. Don&#039;t have time to do more.</p><p><br /></p><p>The history of John Larkin and the huge business and associations with famous people turns out to be very interesting.</p><p>---</p><p>The Larkin Company, also known as the Larkin Soap Company, was a company founded in 1875 in Buffalo, New York as a small soap factory. It grew tremendously throughout the late 1800s and into the first quarter of the 1900s with an approach called &quot;The Larkin Idea&quot; that transformed the company into a mail-order conglomerate that employed 4,000 people and had annual sales of $28.6 million (equivalent to $341,917,000 in 2016) in 1920. The company&#039;s success allowed them to hire Frank Lloyd Wright to design the iconic Larkin Administration Building which stood as a symbol of Larkin prosperity until the company&#039;s demise in the 1940s.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larkin_Company" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larkin_Company" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larkin_Company</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Once Given Away With Soap, Larkin Furniture Now Quite Valuable</p><p>October 12, 1986 | By Anita Gold</p><p><a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-10-12/news/8603170273_1_collector-books-primitives-soap" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-10-12/news/8603170273_1_collector-books-primitives-soap" rel="nofollow">http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-10-12/news/8603170273_1_collector-books-primitives-soap</a></p><p><br /></p><p>John Larkin - The Larkin Company Sweet Home Soap laundry soap- founder of Buffalo Pottery Co. in 190? to manufacture premium give-aways for his soap company - Brother-in-Law (wife&#039;s brother) of Larkin was Elbert Hubbard, founder of The Roycrofters colony - Larkin founded mass production furniture factory (late 1880s? verify date)</p><p>Furniture Detective: The story behind the Larkin desk</p><p>By: Fred Taylor | September 21, 2010</p><p><a href="http://www.antiquetrader.com/antiques/furniture_detective_larkin_desk/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.antiquetrader.com/antiques/furniture_detective_larkin_desk/" rel="nofollow">http://www.antiquetrader.com/antiques/furniture_detective_larkin_desk/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The chair from Etsy: $135.00 + Shipping Sold on: May 30, 2015</p><p><a href="http://www.flippertools.com/tools/etsySoldPrice/etsy-sold-price.htm?itemId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etsy.com%2Fno-en%2Flisting%2F87308835%2Fbogo-larkin-furniture-spindle-rocker%3Fshow_sold_out_detail%3D1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.flippertools.com/tools/etsySoldPrice/etsy-sold-price.htm?itemId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etsy.com%2Fno-en%2Flisting%2F87308835%2Fbogo-larkin-furniture-spindle-rocker%3Fshow_sold_out_detail%3D1" rel="nofollow">http://www.flippertools.com/tools/etsySoldPrice/etsy-sold-price.htm?itemId=https://www.etsy.com/no-en/listing/87308835/bogo-larkin-furniture-spindle-rocker?show_sold_out_detail=1</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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