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Identifying Stickley Furniture

18 years ago

Hello Folks!

I have various confirmed pieces of Stickley furniture throughout my home, most was passed down to me, though I've found deals that were difficult to pass up. (i.e. cheaper than cheap)

I'm not a collector necessarily, I just like the style.

My problem right now is I need to reorganize a little around the house and am thinking of getting rid of some of these Stickley pieces.

However, for almost every piece I have, I can find little to no information identifying what it is (model #) and what it might be worth... Rather than be thrown to the wolves of which I may not get reasonable value, I need to ask for help.

Can anyone point me to "useful" websites for Stickley furniture?

Some items I'm looking to part with include:

Headboards

Rush Seat Ladder Back Chairs

A Sewing/Child Rocker

Small Desk

Windsor Chair

Should I post pictures here for all to see?

Any help is appreaciated!

Jim

Comments (9)

  • PRO
    18 years ago

    You could try going right to the source.

    http://www.stickleymuseum.org/

    They are super nice people,right around the corner from me.

  • 18 years ago

    Thanks for the great ideas!!!

    I do have some photos I uploaded, please take a look.

    These are the headboards and related branding.

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    This is the small desk and related branding.

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    The chair that I probably missidentified as being "Windsor."

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    This is the Rush Seated chair I mentioned, as you can see some stuff I have is just sitting idle.

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    This is the Sewing/Child Rocker... I know it was reupholstered, but the bottom was preserved with the original label... HOWEVER, one of my kids found it unique that there was a sticker under it, I think I have the rest of it somewhere.

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    I also have this dining set, there are leaves that swing up at eaither end and two drawers in the center section... The chairs I have include two with arms, two that are normal size without arms and two that are smaller/child sized... But they all look alike. The chair pictured is representitive of the others.

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    Finally, this isn't a Stickley item, but interesting to me nonetheless. I haven't eve tried to ID it. It is a magazine rack that looks to have had legs at one time, the bottom says 3-60 Cushman with a D stamped in the middle... Any ideas?

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    Thanks to everyone again for the great ideas!

  • 18 years ago

    Very nice  you've taken good care of your furniture!

  • 18 years ago

    Hi Jim - your Stickley furniture appears to be the Cherry Valley type of stuff, very nice, and it is still being made to a large extent. The very old collectible "mission oak" stuff signed by Gustav Stickley is what those auction houses will be dealing in, and that is not what you have. You have colonial reproductions in solid cherry, some of the finest made, but not arts & crafts era touched-by-actual-Stickley-brothers material.

    Now as for the Cushman item, I am a Cushman collector, and the legs being missing is KILLING me. What you have is a 3-60 magazine box, which, according to company records was made ONLY in 1933. It is part of the Cushman Colonial Creations line designed by Herman DeVries (highly noted) who came from Holland and worked for Cushman in the 1930s helping them to establish this "rustic modern" line of furniture - it has always been unique in the industry. I have no picture of this particular model in my book but it is supposed to be 17" tall altogether including whatever legs it would have had. Looks like an original Cushman Maple finish too - very important. You never want to refinish Cushman - the collectibility is in that reddish lacquer finish. This is worth $100 to $200 (suggested) in the book, but because of rarity I would assume twice that value easily if it had the legs on it. The more rare 1930s Cushman pieces in good original condition go for some nice money online. Thanks for sharing your pictures.

  • 18 years ago

    You might contact this eBay dealer - at least the table looks to be similar to the one you have.....

    Alexa

    Here is a link that might be useful: Stuckley Duncan Phyfe style table

  • 18 years ago

    Thank you all for the wonderful ideas... I've known these pieces to be Cherry Valley and not the Gustav, but can't seem to find identicle pieces. It is interesting to me the variety of some of this furniture, almost as if there are model years or manufacturing decisions based upon what was "in the bin." Like the rush seated chairs, any ladder-back style chair I try and locate is similar, but not the same.

    raisemybeds: Thank you for the informative detail on the Cushman magazine box... I've always like the piece, it is beautiful. It wasn't until I started snapping pics of the Stickley stuff that I wondered if anyone had information on the box. Funny, I never noticed before (if I did I forgot) that the legs were missing. It appears they were installed at quite an angle and I wonder if that didn't make it wobbly with the legs and someone removed them to stabilize it. It certainly looks good even without them, but now I'm curious as to how the legs looked?

    Thanks again for helping me learn something new today!

  • 7 years ago

    can anyone’ help me with finding out about this !!!


  • 7 years ago

    Tiffany it definitely is not Stickley so beyond the wonderment of you posting on a ten year old thread about a type of furniture that is it not is strange. Start a new post for it so people will notice that are not interested in Stickley furniture. You may have to do two postings One asking the question and the second one with a picture of your piece. Houzz has a glitch and will accept posts with pictures from some types of computers but others the picture must be separate.

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