Antique Furniture Makers Stamps

To become knowledgeable about identifying antique furniture takes research.

Antique furniture makers stamps. Phyfe was one of the rare early century cabinetmakers who actually used paper labels and tags to identify some of his work. Your antique may be easily identified as belonging in one specific period by the style of the piece. See more ideas about labels furniture maker makers mark.

Johnson noted that more than 1 300 marks or shopmarks were used from 1895 1940 by artists and furniture makers in the arts crafts movement alone and that doesn t. Furniture made by particular manufacturers may have a higher value simply because of who made it. There s no shortage of resources however to help you learn about the company that made your favorite antique chair or table what else it made and how to identify its work.

The first step. For instance one website antique marks has more than 10 000 images of maker s marks and trademarks found on antique pottery and porcelain. How to identify real antique carnival glass.

Educate yourself about the historical periods of furniture making using a history book with plenty of pictures. In other words more vintage furniture is acquired for its beauty and function rather than the profit potential of a piece. Furniture making in america in the 19th century ranged from the small shop like that of duncan phyfe in downtown new york at the turn of the century to the huge factories of grand rapids and buffalo at the turn of the next century.

Apr 29 2020 explore jerry middleton s board furnituremaker s tags labels followed by 113 people on pinterest. Antique books and fellow collectors can provide a wealth of information. Furniture labels and marks have been used since the 19th century and the number of marks out there is mind boggling in his book arts and crafts shopmarks author bruce e.

Antique furniture can remain beautiful long after the maker is gone and forgotten. A telltale sign of the furniture s maker is a manufacturing tag label or stamp bearing the name of the creator. When thinking of all antiques in existence there are tens of thousands if not more of different identification marks.