Unique Eastlake Sheet Music Cabinet

Original back counter coffee bean cabinets are impossible to find. This is a nice all original matching pair. The mirrors are beveled and read... fine blend... coffee and chicory. Th...

This was an estate find and part of a beautiful collection of rare excellent turn of the century posters. They were hidden away for over 100 years. This is a rare and impressive 3 sheet poster that is 7 foot tall. It make quite a statement. About the poster: You'd think that a play called "The New Baby" might feature said child in its promotional material. But here's the thing - there really isn't a baby at the centre of the comedy, and that's the crux of this entertainment. The plot concerns a husband who is so bored with country life that he dreams up the idea of having an illegitimate son in London as a way to get into town for an occasional 'night off'. When his wife decides that the child should be adopted, the expected comic tissue of falsehoods and misunderstandings frays and hilarity ensues. Adapted from German by A. Bourchier, the farce opened in London in 1896 to what a local critic termed 'much mirth'. Several years later, when the play had crossed the Atlantic and entered the repertory of David de Wolf cleverly called the Baby's chaperone on the poster and his troupe of traveling players, that understated review was translated into the more American howling success. The cast and director would've been totally unfamiliar with the British hinterlands, so this splendid design concentrates on the hi-jinks of the characters and their situation. At the start of the 20th century, America was in the full glory of its cultural adolescence, bursting with energy and optimism. In 1900 in New York there were 33 legitimate Broadway theaters...

Not many of these large and impressive Eastlake oil chandeliers were made and few survive today. Lamps like this are often unsigned but are attributed to companies like Tucker or Bra...

This is a very early fuel lamp. It dates before the use of piped gas and electric. It has been wired to take a standard base bulb but still retains the tank, valve, original finish a...

Late 19th Century Victorian Mahogany Sheet Music Cabinet. Clean antique condition. Top shelf clearance is 5" and the lower shelves clearance is 4.5"

An Early 20th Century Black Painted Sheet Music Cabinet. Measures 17.25" in width, 16.25" in depth and 40" in height.

Antique Satinwood Inlaid French Adams Sheet Music Cabinet Display Curio. Item features beautiful inlaid details, single glass door, dovetailed fall front music sheet door, rolling ca...

A good antique Sheraton Revival inlaid mahogany sheet music or file cabinet chest, circa 1900. The cabinet having satinwood stringing to the top, below are four sliding drawers with ...