Appraisal: Comfort Furniture Co. Chaise Longue, ca. 1900
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Appraisal: Comfort Furniture Co. Chaise Longue, ca. 1900
Check out Sebastian Clarke's appraisal of a Comfort Furniture Co. Chaise Longue, ca. 1900, in Never Seen That Before!
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Appraisal: Comfort Furniture Co. Chaise Longue, ca. 1900
Clip: Season 29 Episode 22 | 2m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
Check out Sebastian Clarke's appraisal of a Comfort Furniture Co. Chaise Longue, ca. 1900, in Never Seen That Before!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGUEST: We bought this at a garage sale probably about four years ago.
The people used to own a antique shop in Holly.
They were starting to downsize stuff and getting rid of a few things, and just kind of caught our eye.
APPRAISER: And, uh, how much did you pay for it?
GUEST: Uh, $150.
APPRAISER: And what do you know about it?
GUEST: That you fall asleep real quick when you lay in it.
APPRAISER: (laughs) GUEST: And, uh, it was made in Detroit.
APPRAISER: Okay.
GUEST: You know, Detroit Furniture Company.
APPRAISER: I think we would call this a cantilevered chaise longue.
It's this really unusual form.
My colleagues and I have never actually seen this design before.
And it's definitely made for industrial or commercial use, simply because the way it's constructed, it's a full steel frame.
You can see this wonderful scroll at the bottom, but then the entire frame comes up, and you can even see the steel sticking out at the back here.
And then it's wrapped in wicker.
Our estimation of age is around about 1890 to 1900, 1910.
APPRAISER: We believe that the seat is original.
And it's got this kind of faded color right now, but if you peel it back, you can see this wonderful...
GUEST: Dark gr... APPRAISER: ...emerald green color...
GUEST: Yes, yeah.
APPRAISER: ...that was the original color in there, which is great.
And the way it's constructed is just absolutely lovely.
We believe that it probably came from a sanitarium or a retreat.
GUEST: Really.
APPRAISER: Uh, somewhere in the area.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: It does have a label of the, uh, Comfort Furniture Company, Detroit.
I did some research and completely struck out.
APPRAISER: That's not to say that we wouldn't be able to find out, but most likely, that was a small manufacturer here in Detroit that was providing... APPRAISER: ...this commercial furniture for retreats and sanitariums and spas.
The largest and most well-known sanitarium was the Battle Creek Sanitarium, right here in Michigan.
Another reason we know that it's commercial or industrial design is, this frame, each foot has a hole in it, and that was for it to be bolted.
It's certainly an unusual object...
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: ...which is good and bad, but people really do love wicker.
There's a little bit of fraying, but the condition otherwise is very, very good.
So value on this, we have, uh, all of my colleagues and I got together, and if we saw this in a good antiques show, I would expect a retail price to be around about $3,000.
GUEST: Okay.
Nice.
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