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The Best Way to Identify the Best Furniture

Here we will look into how to identify implies that an article cost more for
the best ways to recognize the furniture materials and probably also for labor,
whether they are good or bad and old or and that it was probably made to a high
new. This can be done through the general standard throughout. The better-quality
appearances, the coloring, construction, eighteenth-century pieces were fitted
etc. All these could help you to identify with oak linings to the drawers, but in
the best and the worst. exceptional instances this might be
General appearance mahogany or cedar. Practice varied from
The general look of a piece of furniture workshop to workshop and from period to
tells the expert whether it is old or period, and a guide can give only clues
not, but this is a matter of experience. not answers.
If you are interested in old furniture Books
see as many genuine pieces as you can; go The comprehensive book on all aspects of
to museums where you are certain of the old English furniture is The Dictionary
authenticity of the articles. Slowly the of English Furniture, by Percy Macquoid
eye and mind can be trained to recognize and Ralph Edwards. It is in three large
whether the appearance of a piece is true volumes, copiously illustrated, and was
or not. first issued in 1927. A further edition,
Coloring revised and enlarged by Ralph Edwards,
The ageing of wood alters its colour was published in 1954.
according to the timber from which it is An excellent guide to the period
made, and according to the treatment it 1720-1820 is Georgian Furniture, issued
has received over the years. Even the by the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1951.
hidden inside parts change with time; if A standard work on French furniture is
a drawer-lining is scraped it will show Les Ebenistes du XVIW Siecle, by Comte
at once how the surface has aged. Francois de Salverte, of which the fourth
Equally, the old polished outside edition was published in Paris and
surfaces mellow, and repolishing changes Brussels in 1953. Also written in French,
the colour of the wood completely. but less exhaustive and cheaper in price
Construction is Les Meubles Francois du XVIW Siecle,
It is worthwhile studying the methods of by Pierre Verlet. It is in two volumes:
making furniture, and how they have i), Menuiserie, ii), Ebenisterie,
changed from time to time. How, for published in Paris in 1956. In English
instance, the crude dovetails on the the Wallace Collection, London, Catalogue
heavy drawer sides of 1600 were modified of French Furniture, by F. J. B. Watson,
and improved in the course of the issued in 1956, contain, a great deal of
century. When examining a piece of information and many illustrations.
furniture in a strong light, it is as Experts in furniture can identify the
well to look for signs of alteration, and furniture and tell you that whether the
to try to reason what was done and why. articles are new or old through the
New screws differ markedly from old; appearances of the furniture. The
prior to about 1850 they did not taper to coloring of the woods altered by the
a point, also, the slot in the head was aging and the treatments that it receives
hand-cut and seldom central; in modern from time to time determines its
machine-made screws it is invariably appearances. And the types of
exactly across the middle of the head. constructions give you a good idea about
Veneering has been mentioned on earlier the condition of the furniture. The
pages when it came into use with the screws the nails and the way the woods
introduction of walnut. It may be added are fitted, etc. gives shows what are the
that old veneers were cut with a saw by conditions. The Dictionary of English
hand, and are consequently quite thick; Furniture, by Percy Macquoid and Ralph
many of them almost an eighth of an inch. Edwards is the comprehensive book on all
Modern veneers, however, are cut with a aspects of the English furniture. And Les
machine-driven saw, and are much thinner. Ebenistes du XVIW Siecle, by Comte
This, with other factors, is a useful Francois de Salverte is a standard work
indication of the genuineness of a piece. on French furniture.
The use of some of the rarer woods




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