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Victorian Furniture thread on victorianforum.com · started June 22, 2009 by jons_guitar · 5 posts, 4 image attachments · discussion in 2009.
Greetings all, I recently picked up a pair of Victorian style parlour chairs and am having some difficulty reading the maker's ID. Anyone else have any ideas/guesses or helpful hints? Thanks.
Greetings all, I recently picked up a pair of Victorian style parlour chairs and am having some difficulty reading the maker's ID. Anyone else have any ideas/guesses or helpful hints? Thanks.
If you can, please take the cabinetmaker ID photo again. There is a minimum distance that your camera will need you to be away from the signature in order to focus properly, so take a few at various distances, close-in and slightly further away. Send me your best few.
If you send us full resolution images (to info @ rarevictorian.com), I can magnify via zooming and cropping to post here.
If you send us full resolution images (to info @ rarevictorian.com), I can magnify via zooming and cropping to post here.
It looks like a variant on the Martha M House/Carleton McLendon/Victorian Furniture Company "Romantic Victorian" side chair. (I think the upholstery color is "Guava," BTW.)
Photo from an old Martha M catalog:
Photo from an old Martha M catalog:
I agree w/ TPR. The carving looks like the word "Victorian" - possibly w/ a prefix or numbers before the word Victorian.
Yeah, were it to be Victorian era, they would not have marked it that way.