we went to the fair. we got stuff!
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ellenkushnerGreetings from Brimfield Antiques Fair in glorious Massachusetts (where we are Legally Married once again)! A staggeringly hot day, and we gamely staggered around the acres of amazing stuff. We hunted; we killed. And now we must dress the beast and bring it home. In a large, scarey 12-foot truck which we will rent tomorrow.
Here is one of our kills. It will go in the diningroom, where hot dishes of food will be placed upon the marble to serve our guests. It is from ca. 1860, they think, and is made of a rare wood I'd never even heard of, cocobolo.
Here is one of our kills. It will go in the diningroom, where hot dishes of food will be placed upon the marble to serve our guests. It is from ca. 1860, they think, and is made of a rare wood I'd never even heard of, cocobolo.
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Date: 2008-09-05 04:01 am (UTC)But first, can you tel me the code to type in around the photos so that they are a cut that people have to click on to see them so I don't clog up my page with phtos?
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Date: 2008-09-05 05:50 am (UTC)Replace [ and ] with < and > respectively. You can put whatever text you want, of course. If you just put [LJ-CUT] without any text specified, it automatically uses the text "Read more...".
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Date: 2008-09-05 04:21 am (UTC)You could just use a cut-tag: < lj-cut text="Click here for the pretty antiques" > photo goes here < /lj-cut > -- remove spaces to make the tags functional.
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Date: 2008-09-05 05:39 am (UTC)Mine is identical, same wood, same everything, handed down through the Vincent side of the family, from when they lived in Jamaica Plains, MA, during that era.
It was bizarre to look at that photo. I just went into my dining room and looked at mine. IDENTICAL.
:)
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Date: 2008-09-05 02:50 pm (UTC)Well - now we know what part of the country it comes from. . . . !
What kind of candlesticks did you put on yours?
And it *is* a server, right? We were looking for ones that we thought had originated as something else, to serve as servers.
(I will tell you that we paid about $450 for it - seems like an utter steal - and, indeed, it's Dealer prices, not NYC Antiques prices - but still . . . . )
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Date: 2008-09-05 02:53 pm (UTC)But then, you knew that....
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Date: 2008-09-08 05:18 am (UTC)I wonder if they were made to "match" by the same furniture maker?
I will post a series of photos of mine for you at my LJ this week, neh?
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Date: 2008-09-08 05:17 am (UTC)Yes, it's a server for a dining room. The candlesticks on mine are original Paul Revere rolled silver, which are also family antiques -- no, not "Paul Revere-type" ... Paul Revere candlesticks. :-)
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Date: 2008-09-05 07:04 am (UTC)Yay! for being legally married in whichever state you're in at the time. I think you should celebrate every time. Eventually (I hope) you could be in the position of having 50 wedding parties. That would be fab, on so many levels.
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Date: 2008-09-05 11:03 am (UTC)Sorry to intrude - ex-antiques dealer - can't help it! Nice washstand btw, commercially it would have sold as Rosewood. ;)
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Date: 2008-09-05 06:12 pm (UTC)Probably. I meant when it was made originally - all sorts of tropical woods were sold under the generic names of 'mahoghany' or 'rosewood' - the terms covered a multitude of types; they often just tacked a country of origin on the front ie 'Cuban Mahoghany' = tropical hardwood stained red! *g*
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Date: 2008-09-09 06:08 pm (UTC)I'm straight, and I am hoping to avoid living in states that don't want you!
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Date: 2008-09-05 06:36 pm (UTC)Sarah
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Date: 2008-09-07 04:11 pm (UTC)http://www.clodia.org/journal/index.html
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Date: 2008-09-06 02:49 am (UTC)What a find...
Any magic hidden in the drawers, pray tell?
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Date: 2008-09-06 12:53 pm (UTC)Ooooh, very handsome, this!
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Date: 2008-09-06 06:16 pm (UTC)1860 is just about on-the-money. Delia's right, it was originally a washstand, but marble-topped sideboards in dining rooms did exist back then. It's the marble backsplash that makes it a washstand. If it were a sideboard, it would likely have had a set-back wooden "superstructure" above the marble-- a supported shelf maybe a third to a half the depth of the marble top, at the far back, for decanters and the like to rest on. Like this (http://www.antiquearts.com/cgi-bin/item.fcgi?itemKey=1205829;store=%2Fstores%2Fsouhantq;catId=367) and this (http://www.harpgallery.com/showroom/item3771.html). You might notice these are also fancier than yours, which also indicates it was a washstand; the greatest degree of display went in public rooms like the dining room.
Don't worry about putting hot food on the marble. The worst that'll happen is the food will cool faster than perhaps you want it to. I think it would take something like a red-hot poker placed on the marble to crack that thickness of it. But many serving pieces are footed, anyway-- epergnes, compotes, casserole stands, etc.
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