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Summary: Resources for 19th century chair collecting; books and more resources from an antiques expert in this free video on antique furniture appraisal.
Sue Shea has been dealing in antiques since 1979, and has her own shop, Shea Antiques, located in Shelburne Falls, MA. Her passion is early American 18th & 19th century antique country...read more
"So if your thinking about collecting these types of chairs or any type of early American furniture, in this particular case, we're looking at the 19th century pieces. But I highly recommend you use the resources out there. There're tons of books written on early American furniture or just chairs in general. You can buy it from European or American. This is a good example of early American Antique Country Furniture. These are great examples of the different styles you can collect. I highly recommend that you look at the types of resource books like this. This is another one American Country Antique's. Then the really good Furniture Treasury by Wallace Nutting. They're a two part series. It has great examples of all of these chairs that we have been showing you today. A lot of 19-20th century. These are the resource books that I highly recommend. If you can't buy them, go to the library and order them. They have just a huge resource there that you can tap into just by asking them to order these books. The other thing also I recommend is going on to like eBay to find resources there. You can buy books off Amazon.com or you can go to any those other large book stores. So these are some of the things I recommend you to do when you're starting to collect 19th century furniture."
eHow Article: Resources for 19th Century Chair Collecting