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Title: Help Identify Genuine Arts & Crafts Footstool
Post by: clafever2000 on March 16, 2010, 07:36:16 am: Hello,
Can someone please help identify this footstool. I'm looking to find the maker and some value estimates. I really like it and unless it's worth a lot I'm considering refinishing and upholstering it for my personal use.

The only mark I can find is on the bottom " 412 ". I do not know if the pattern on the top was a decoration or something sat on it. All of the tacks are accounted for and the corner looking bolts are actually tacks too.

Here are additional pictures. Thanks!

http://s876.photobucket.com/albums/ab327/clafever2000/Furniture/?action=view&current=Photo0210.jpg&newest=1
http://s876.photobucket.com/albums/ab327/clafever2000/Furniture/?action=view&current=Photo0211.jpg&newest=1
http://s876.photobucket.com/albums/ab327/clafever2000/Furniture/?action=view&current=Photo0212.jpg&newest=1
http://s876.photobucket.com/albums/ab327/clafever2000/Furniture/?action=view&current=Photo0213.jpg&newest=1
http://s876.photobucket.com/albums/ab327/clafever2000/Furniture/?action=view&current=Photo0214.jpg&newest=1
http://s876.photobucket.com/albums/ab327/clafever2000/Furniture/?action=view&current=Photo0215.jpg&newest=1

Thank you,
Chad
Title: Re: Help Identify Genuine Arts & Crafts Footstool
Post by: D&b antiques on March 16, 2010, 04:14:07 pm: I would go with the refinish. bolt's are a no no on art's & crafts style furniture it does look to be oak.
Title: Re: Help Identify Genuine Arts & Crafts Footstool
Post by: KC on March 16, 2010, 04:53:31 pm: I go along with D&b's expert advice and say go with the refinish. Also agree about the bolts on this style!
Title: Re: Help Identify Genuine Arts & Crafts Footstool
Post by: clafever2000 on March 16, 2010, 07:34:35 pm: Thanks for the input folks.

The 'bolts'/ tacks are original. Interesting...

I would still like to know a maker if anyone knows.

Thanks!
Title: Re: Help Identify Genuine Arts & Crafts Footstool
Post by: KC on March 16, 2010, 10:31:29 pm: Sorry clafever, I have no clue as to the particular manufacturer on this one. Maybe someone else will chime in!
Title: Re: Help Identify Genuine Arts & Crafts Footstool
Post by: jondar on March 20, 2010, 09:46:00 am: Chad - Do you have an opinion whether this is a commercially made footstool or a project put together by, say, a student? My daughter found a footstool in the dumpster behind her apartment, oak or walnut, can't remember, anyway a very well put together footstool. Needed refinishing and upholstering but when finished seemed a quality object. On the bottom, written in heavy ink was a very uncommon name and K. U. 1967. She, like you, was interested in the maker and ran the name, which believe me was uncommon, on Yahoo Find People and found someone with that name who was a dentist in some town in Ohio. Makes you wonder where it had been all these years. She lives only about fifty miles from Kansas University.
Title: Re: Help Identify Genuine Arts & Crafts Footstool
Post by: clafever2000 on March 22, 2010, 09:22:45 am: Good story. Makes you wonder... I only live about 3 minutes from KU :)

On the bottom it has the numbers 412 and it appears to be a stencil/stamp. It is not hand written. Interesting trying to find the maker. The 412 could also be a stamp from the vendor, seller, or moving company or something. I'm going to refinish it and enjoy.

Thanks!
Title: Re: Help Identify Genuine Arts & Crafts Footstool
Post by: KC on March 22, 2010, 02:08:10 pm: clafever2000, that is the main theme I believe that most of us on this site carry. Like/love your particular piece and enjoy it!!!!