Name/Title
Fine Points of Furniture: Early AmericanEntry/Object ID
2025.99.1Description
This is a new kind of handbook for the collector and the antiquarian. It presents a thorough analysis through pictures and text, of the various elements of design, decoration, craftsman-ship, construction and finish of early American furniture, showing with each type discussed three examples - good, better, best —and comparing the relative merits and consequent value differentials of each. It explains why superficially similar pieces of furniture of the same approximate age and scarcity, and possibly by the same maker, may vary considerably in desirability and worth. As such it will serve as a unique, indispensable appraisers' guide to collectors in judging and evaluating an-tiques.
More than 100 types are discussed, more than 300 examples are illustrated, including some of the most notable pieces known.
Albert Sack has an established reputation as an authoritative writer on furniture subjects. He is a member of his father's firm, Israel Sack, Inc., one of the country's most respected and best-known dealers in early American fur-niture.Create Date
May 24, 2025
