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Video Posts No. 494

Miniature Furniture Antiques

I enjoyed the video below of high quality antique miniature furniture produced by Antiques TV. These aren't your ordinary dollhouse furniture pieces - they are very well made and use high quality materials.

Belter Bidding War
Video Posts No. 437

Belter Bidding War

This video is from a 2006 Antiques Roadshow video appraisal done on this pair of John Henry Belter scroll pattern armchairs where the buyer paid $7,000 for them - a result of a heated bidding war where the thrill got the

Antiques Roadshow Herter Brothers "Burn Mark" Parlor Table
Video Posts No. 422

Antiques Roadshow Herter Brothers "Burn Mark" Parlor Table

As Michael Flanigan said in this Antiques Roadshow appraisal, if this table hadn't been branded "Herter Bros", I would have passed it off as a nice Rosewood Renaissance Revival table. However this is indeed a true Herter

Video - Antique Rococo Revival Chair Crest Repair
Video Posts No. 324

Video - Antique Rococo Revival Chair Crest Repair

Some good friends of mine asked for a recommendation on a repair shop and I mentioned to them that Rose Valley Restorations does good work for me, so they brought the chair to me to take in to John Hutchinson. This will

Video Posts No. 304

Video - Part III: Refinishing A Merklen Brothers "Shabby" Table

A quick update on the table's progress in this video. It is fully stripped and sanded and the quartersawn Oak shows in all it's bare glory. We select stain for the wood and paint for the griffins. Video Part I and Part I

Video Posts No. 301

Video - Part II: Refinishing A Merklen Brothers "Shabby" Table

Here's Part II of the Merklen Brothers table refinish project. If you didn't view the first Part yet, I recommend you watch it first, here. In this episode, I'm in the shop of my favorite local furniture restoration busi

Video Posts No. 279

Video: Refinishing A Merklen Brothers "Shabby" Table

This will be the first of hopefully many video blog posts here on Rare Victorian in the future. I did end up rescuing the Merklen Brothers table from this previous post and I hope to capture the transformation on video f