CHARITY ROW:
This vintage pair of end or side tables by Kroehler Furniture have seen some use but still have a lot left in them. They each have minor defects, a water mark on one and a repaired veneer strip on the other (see pictures) but they’re not overwhelming flaws. Luckily the drawers still work smoothly and the original handles are still intact.
They are 21 inches wide, 17 inches deep and 22 inches tall and we’re selling them as a set.
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Overthrow the hegemony of the right angle with this rounded end piece. It has two large drawers that could be used for files or other storage meaning this would work well in a home or business.
It’s in great condition and has birds-eye maple veneer on the drawer fronts and a nice light reddish-brown veneer that is probably central American mahogany over the rest of it.
It is in excellent condition and measures 52 1/2 inches wide, 25 1/2 inches deep and 34 inches tall.
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Design wise this looks a bit heavy doesn’t it?
That was the intent. I suspect this piece was built to fit in Tudor Revival style homes of the early 20th century. Of particular note is the central carved round motif on the upper door (partially repeated on the drawer). It looks as though they were going for a design reminiscent of the Tudor Rose.
This china cabinet is in good condition. It is 38 inches wide, 68 inches tall and just over 17 inches deep. The upper part has a large cabinet with pegs for a shelf (but no shelf) Below is a large drawer and a cabinet with a shelf.
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This is a pretty nice mid-century modern five drawer chest of drawers made by the Dillingham Furniture Company of Sheboygan, Wisconsin. It is in quite good condition and measures 38 inches wide, 19 inches deep and stands 36 inches tall.
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This is a BCM/HL Registered Design which is a mark of high quality furniture. Well, I hope it is.
The BCM/HL label seems to be something of an enigma, with no one exactly sure what it stands for. I did a little looking around and it seems that BCM most likely stands for Bath Cabinet Makers.
Not the ‘rubba-dub-dub’ kind of bath, but Bath, England, which might be most familiar from reading Chaucer in high school.
The HL component of the name is unknown to me but it should be decipherable with access to the correct references (which I don’t have).
Bath Cabinet Maker’s was founded in 1895 and claimed to produce the highest quality furniture in England. At some point after the late 1960′s the company was absorbed into the Herman Miller empire, however the brand survived to some degree at least as late as 1984.
This armoire/wardrobe is about 40 inches wide, 77 inches tall and 17 inches deep. It is in great condition and has two clothes hanging bars in the upper section, with attached hooks. Below is a full width drawer.
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Gertrude got married not long after she had her hair bob cut*. It was the 1920′s and along with china and glassware, furniture was a good wedding gift. There were tables, a Windsor rocking chair (now mine), fern stands and bedroom pieces. She didn’t get this particular piece, but I remember seeing one a lot like it so I presume this is from the same era, if not somewhat older.
This dresser is in very good condition and has two half-sized drawers and two full-width drawers. Having the beveled edge mirror oriented in the landscape position is a bit unusual and I think it’s a nice touch.
It is just over 42 inches wide, just under 20 inches deep and almost exactly 58 1/2 inches to the top of the mirror.
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*They did a bad job and then she had to have the chop job fixed by her father, a part-time barber. This must have been a great mark of shame or recrimination since we still remember it. The cool part was that she kept her long braid when her hair was cut. It was found in a box in the back of her closet over 60 years later and then we knew where the family auburn hair came from and who we should blame for all of us going gray before 30.
School days, school days
Dear old Golden Rule days
‘Reading and ‘riting and ‘rithmetic
Taught to the tune of the hick’ry stick
You were my queen in calico
I was your bashful, barefoot beau
And you wrote on my slate, “I Love You So”
When we were a couple o’ kids
A nice pair of antique cast iron and wood school desks. Each has a shelf for books, a hole for an inkwell, a pen groove and the seats fold. Both are in pretty good shape and are roughly 28 inches deep, 21 1/2 inches wide and a maximum of 26 inches tall.
We’re selling them separately.
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Wow! This is a fabulous bow front mahogany chest of drawers by Baker Furniture. In near new condition. This piece was a factory second and when it first arrived it was still in the original box and even had little foam sheets to hold the drawer in place during transport.
It is about 49 inches wide, 22 1/2 inches deep and 37 1/2 inches tall.
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This piece is about 38 inches wide 23 1/2 inches deep and 45 inches tall.
It’s in great condition and features book-match figurative veneer and solid wood secondaries. Inside the upper section are three drawers and there are two below that.
It was made by the Abernathy Furniture Company of Leavenworth, Kansas.
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Berkey & Gay was one of the leading late 19th century furniture makers and this continued into the early 20th century. They were noted for producing quality pieces at decent prices. I always like to get items made by them since I know that the piece will be well made and if not mistreated, it will have withstood the years well.
These three pieces are good examples and since they were quality pieces to begin with they are in good condition now*.
The tall chest of drawers is in excellent condition, it is about 46 inches tall, 20 inches deep and 26 inches wide. SOLD!
The dressing table is 46 inches wide, 19 inches deep and 30 inches tall. It’s probably seen the most use out of all the pieces, but it’s still in good shape. SOLD
The mirror is not marked as Berkey & Gay however I’m pretty sure it is another of their products. It is in excellent condition and stands about 46 inches tall and 24 1/2 inches wide.
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*It may help that they might have been in a beach house for a while and not in daily use. When we got them in the drawers had a lot of sand in them, not enough to provide traction on a mountain road, but definitely more than you’d want in the waistband of your swimsuit. We gave them a good vacuuming (in the process netting two pennies for the cash register).
A place for everything and everything in it’s place.
With 15 drawers this makes that quite a bit easier.
Alternatively one could use it to make getting dressed easier in the morning. Just put one days worth of socks, underwear and a T-shirt in each drawer. After two weeks it’s time to do laundry again.
It is 34 inches wide, 41 inches tall and about 13 inches deep. One of the drawer pulls has been replaced but it is in good shape overall.
This vintage two drawer cigar box originally contained cigars made by the J.T. Swann & Co of Tampa Florida. They were “manufactured to retail at more than Five Cents each and not more than Eight cents each and are so tax paid.”
Which I take to mean it is fairly old. It’s hard to say exactly, but a five to eight cent cigar seems like a good price for one in the late 1940′s.
Swann cigars were made by a company named after James T. Swann. Swann was a realtor, investor and general bigwig who happened to own a cigar factory and citrus groves. He died in 1953 and was succeeded by his son James Jr. who died in 1955. Much of their business was conducted via mail order, leading to some strenuous complaining when the postal service increased rates.
The box is 9 1/4 inches wide, 5 1/2 inches tall and 6 1/4 inches deep. It is in excellent condition and has classic box or finger joints on the back two corners. It is stamped on the bottom with the maker’s mark, the seal of the City of Tampa Florida and pertinent tax info.
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This cute vintage sewing stand has good ‘bones’ but could use some care. The top was stripped and never refinished and the rest of the original finish is a bit rough too. Fortunately all the parts are solidly attached and it is otherwise OK.
My guess is that this fell prey to an organizer who likes to start projects but has trouble actually completing them.
Maybe you know someone who can finish it?
The lid lifts to reveal a tray with notches and spindles for thread. You can remove the tray to access the lower storage compartment, or you can pull the front out since the compartment is also a drawer.
It is 26 inches tall, 12 1/2 inches deep and 16 1/4 inches wide.
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I dig that 1930′s Art Deco inspired styling! Note the diagonal bands of different colored woods, the cool little plastic handles and the overall ‘streamline’ shape.
Inside there is a clothes hanging area on the left with hook permanently attached to the bar. On the right are conveniently labeled compartments for shirts, underwear and pyjamas (not pajamas). On the door is a mirror a towel bar and a wee-little metal tray/box/shelf for your collar studs.
The wardrobe is in very good condition and it is 37 inches wide, 19 inches deep and 66 inches tall.
Inside the door is a label noting, “This Is Ronson Craftsman Built Furniture.” Given the overall look of the piece I presume this is an English company, but I’ve found out very little about it (even a tour of the British Library turned up empty).
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As he climbed into bed every night Moses Leadpaint would peel a chip off the old dressing table that belonged to his grandmother.
The paint tasted sweet and slightly chalky, like her cookies. He’d fall asleep contented and warm in the knowledge that he’d never learn algebra.
Vintage shabby dressing table. It looks like someone undertook a refinishing project and gave up part way through. I rather like the way it looks now but you could continue the project and refinish this and have a nice little piece.
Given the age of this piece some of the paint is probably lead paint. As such you shouldn’t use it as-is around children. If you don’t have children then you could consider sealing and repainting the item although it isn’t a long term solution. Ideally you’d follow the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s preferred remedy and have the lead paint removed entirely.
It is 38 1/2 inches wide, 20 inches deep and 62 inches tall to the top of the mirror. It is in good structural condition too.
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Externally it’s the spitting image of a flame Mahogany butler’s pantry secretary we had back in February 2010. But there are a few differences, most notably of the arrangement of the pigeon holes in the writing desk part and that it is not nearly as wide.
The upper china display section had two doors with bubble glass panels. The glass is in great shape which is good since I’ve no idea where one would go to get replacement glass. The false mullions are robust solid Mahogany and are in perfect condition.
The uppermost drawer has a fold down front with a gold-edged green leather pad so that you can use it as a writing desk. There are several pigeon holes and one little cabinet along the back of this drawer for small stuff. Below are three storage drawers and there are cabinets on each side.
This piece is 49 inches wide, 78 3/4 inches tall and 15 inches deep.
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I have to admit this is the first piece like this I’ve seen here at the Warehouse.
It’s a Teak display-storage-book case by Komfort Danish Furniture (winners of the King Frederik IX* Award for Excellence in Export) located, presumably, somewhere in Denmark.
There is a central cabinet with glass doors and shelves flanked by two book shelf like wings. In the center of the center section are five storage drawers with nice finger/box joint corners. It is all lit from above by two bright halogen bulbs.
The center section is 36 inches wide. Each side/shelf part is 12 1/2 inches wide. In total it is 61 inches wide. The center part is 77 1/2 inches tall but the shelf/side pieces are somewhat shorter at about 68 inches. It is a maximum of 16 1/2 inches deep.
The side shelves come off to make moving this slightly easier.
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The award was founded in 1970 so this piece must be more recent than that time. Regardless, when one looks for King Frederik IX you find some interesting stuff, like a guy with some blotchy tattoos, an unnatural ability to hold his breath and who didn’t mind appearing in his swim trunks in a home movie.
This simple but elegant magazine stand is a good example of why mid-century modern Scandinavian design is so popular.
Three pieces of bent wood joined by four screws making one well designed piece of furniture.
Dimensions: 15 1/2 inches long, 9 3/4 inches high and 6 1/2 inches wide. It is in great condition.
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What if you say to yourself “I don’t have a desk, how can I help?” That’s OK too, if you don’t have a desk and are looking for one we have this vintage ‘convertible’ wood desk. It has two sliding top pencil boxes, pigeon holes and a pull-out writing shelf. It is about 21 inches deep, 34 inches tall and 40 inches wide.
If you don’t have a desk and aren’t looking for one that’s OK too as the nice folks at Good magazine don’t know that you are voting on company time (or while sitting in your skivvies at home).
Whatever you are or aren’t doing, please vote.
Thanks!
Update: The desk has been sold but you can still vote!
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This six tier shelf is designed for use with billiard or other pool type balls. The space between shelves is about 2 1/2 inches and there is a slight groove running down the length of the shelf to keep them from rolling out.
Hypothetically the numbers shelves either indicate which table the balls came from or, possibly, the order of balls pocketed on any particular round.
At the largest points the shelf is 23 inches wide, 19 3/4 inches tall and 4 inches deep. It is unmarked, but probably accompanied a Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company table of the 1920′s or 1930′s.
It is in good condition, with original finish and the gilt numbers are still vibrant.
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This solid oak sideboard with mirrored back is just over 54 inches wide, 22 inches deep and 70 inches tall.
It’s probably English and is that light oak color that looks warm and inviting and almost sunny, even in the gloom of a Portland winter. It is in excellent condition and has two lined drawers over two large storage compartments. One of these cabinets has a shelf. The other once had a shelf too, but it is now missing however the supports for it remain so it’s be easy to fashion and install a new shelf if you need one.
This is a good example of the simple geometry and use of natural woods that the Arts and Crafts (Mission) movement is well known for. The little half circle cut-outs are a nice decorative touch too.
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This is an item that’s rather unusual.
It’s a late 19th century (probably 1880′s or 1890′s) counter display cabinet for thread. This is a six drawer model that (miraculously) still retains the original finish. In stead of plain wood sides this is one of the ones that has relief decorations made of some sort of pressed-board material (possibly Lincrusta Walton?).
It’s in good condition, the interior drawer dividers are gone and someone damaged (and sort of repaired) the pressed panel on the back. We’ve put a close-up photo of it below.
UPDATE: I knew I forgot something . . . the measurements of this item are 25 3/4 inches wide, 19 1/2 inches deep and 22 3/4 inches tall. Sorry ’bout that.
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Cute, effective, economical.
This is a smallish piece that still offers plenty of storage. It is 36 1/4 inches wide, 18 inches deep and 30 inches tall. There is a full width drawer, and adjustable lower shelf and four small drawers for storing flatware or other small items.
I’ve seen furniture with drawers like these used as dressers before. It seem that compulsive sock folders find these are perfect for displaying the wonders of orderly foot coverings. As the scion of a short, stubby, gnarled and stubborn tree of disorderly pack-rats I won’t even pretend to understand.
It is in very good condition and it was made by Vinde Møbelfabrik of Skive, Denmark.
Now this is pretty cool.
This Scandinavian modern styled desk has curved roll style closure and a pull out writing shelf. Inside the upper enclosure are three drawers and several little pigeon holes. Below are four wide drawers.
I’m particularly fond of the lines of the curved closure and the finger grip of the writing shelf.
It is 35 1/2 inches wide, 19 inches deep and 38 inches tall.
I even dipped into the skeleton key collection and found one that works.
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The trouble with big set like this is not a lot of folks have room for all the pieces AND a convenient empty corner to put it in. Hence, we’re faced with the classic problem of either breaking the set up, or looking at it for the extended future.
We’re going to break it up since space is a bit tight around here.
These five pieces were made in Denmark, have rosewood veneer and adjustable shelves. Each piece stands 88 inches tall.
From left to right we have:
A 1/4 round unit that is 12 1/2 inches deep (SOLD).
Next is a tapered shelf that is 12 1/2 inches deep on the left side but just over 16 inches deep on the right side (SOLD).
The center unit has three drawers and is also just over 16 inches deep (SOLD).
The biggest piece in the assemblage is the corner piece. The short sides to either side of the opening are only 12 1/2 inches deep. The enclosed back sides are about 26 inches wide, so the foot print for the piece is a 26 inch square (SOLD).
The last piece on the right is another tapered shelf, but this time the deeper side is to the left and the shallower side is on the right (SOLD).
The two tapered pieces and drawer unit are 22 1/4 inches wide.
