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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: kathyv43 on February 17, 2018, 03:23:47 PM
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I posted earlier about helping an older lady sell some of her furniture. I posted a vanity she had given me, but she also gave me a few other items. One is this pie safe with glass doors versus wire. I know the wire may have been changed out for glass...not sure. Anyways, posting some pics. The label on the back is torn, so I can't read it and there is another label under it that I can't read either. Any info? Thanks.
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The finish and style do not say pie safe to me. Looks more of a bookcase or china cupboard. Does it has wheels on the feet?
PeLady
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Glad you said that, my original thought was a china cabinet. And, no wheels.
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Unless there are wire covered ventilation holes in the sides, I don't think you'e got a pie safe, but it looks like what I have seen called a "lawyer's bookcase"
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Can't tell from the pictures - are the sides glass? If so I would say china chest/cupboard.
See if there is wear on the shelves like books would leave being pushed in or pulled out. I couldn't see any with the pictures.
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I believe you have a circa 1930s china cabinet because of the “glass” in the side panels and the doors. A full frontal photo would confirm it …… but I am assuming it looks similar to this 1930s mahogany china cabinet, to wit:
(http://veneziagiovane.info/i/2018/02/1930s-mahogany-china-cabinet-together-with-where-to-put-a-china-cabinet-also-antique-furniture-china-cabinets-plus-pictures-of-china-cabinets-or-chinoiserie-china-cabinet.jpg)
And here is a re-post of your picture that shows the glass in the side panel, to wit:
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Agree on the display cabinet function, but would put the date back to ca. 1880.
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1940`s china cabinet !!
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Just curious, would Augusta GA have any connection to the piece? (I see there is a 1208 Broad Street address there today.)
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Rauville, I came across that last night, Marketplace Antiques. That label is on top of what is left of another label. I can't figure out what it says though. I am going to post some better pics in a few minutes.
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More pics. I'm not sure if the shelves are original.
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What state are you in ??
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Georgia...so Marketplace Antiques in Augusta makes sense. I thought that maybe Mrs.Emily's mother purchased it there because Mrs. Emily has a son-in-law that lives about 30 minutes from Augusta. And Marketplace put there label over the original label...there is only a little bit left from each label.
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Looking at the later pictures I was definitely wrong about it being a lawyers bookcase. It seems odd to have a china hutch with cabinets so low to the floor. Any glass cabinet being low to the floor seems like an invitation for a childhood accident to me, LOL!
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Well....it has a broken glass on one side and on the lower front...so it appears that someone's had a few accidents. Lol. I am hopefully going to move an old house within the next few months and update it some....i plan on repurposing this piece...at the moment I plan to use it in the master bath....to store towels and pretty little soaps...candles and whatever else I may come up with.😁
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Georgia...so Marketplace Antiques in Augusta makes sense. I thought that maybe Mrs.Emily's mother purchased it there because Mrs. Emily has a son-in-law that lives about 30 minutes from Augusta. And Marketplace put there label over the original label...there is only a little bit left from each label.
Typically an antique shop would not use a label and surely wouldn`t put one over the original !! I think one is the mfrs label and one,, the dark one, is the retailer !! Labels or marks of any kind were rare before the 30`s !! Then the companies started marketing to the housewives in 40`s and 50`s !! Especially on items that were not part of a set !! A china cabinet was more of a luxury item !! Sets usually were table and chairs and a server/buffet !!
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Makes sense to me. Thanks Mart.
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I think both labels are later and that the piece is earlier, late 19th century.