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What is this ? Antique kitchen furniture ?

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Three pieces counting table top; top is white & black trimmed porceline metal & it pulls out some, has sifter, bread box & far right drawer is metal. 1392 white is stamped on the back of the bottom piece. I really want to know what it is called, when it was made, & if posable who made it.
  • 2 years ago
hsmommy06 by hsmommy0...
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These are what they call Seller or Hoosier type of cabinets.

Hoosier, Sellers, Boone, Napanee, McDougall. Some of the names from the past that represent an era of Mom and apple pie; good smells coming from the kitchen; and a couple of manufacturers that just happen to make one the most popular pieces of kitchen furniture from the turn of the century, until the late 1940's. The bakers cabinet, kitchen cabinet, or more commonly known, the Hoosier.

Yours doesn't look to be a "real" antique and more of a later model. They still make replacement parts for these cabinets and I am sure this one can be madeover beautifully if you have the knowhow and time and patience. How fun!! Only a antique dealer or someone with that knowledge that can see it up close would know. Let me do a little research here and see if I can find something.

A list of some of the makers and you can do a search.

Hoosier - New Castle, Indiana
Sellers - Elwood, Indiana
Napanee - Nappanee, Indiana (Coppes Bros. & Zook)
McDougall - Frankfort, Indiana
Greencastle - Greencastle, Indiana
Diamond - Shelbyville, Indiana (C.F. Schmoe)
Ideal - Vincennes, Indiana
Boone - Lebanon, Indiana
Wilson - Grand Rapids, Michigan (sold by Sears)
Marsh - High Point, North Carolina (Marsh Furniture Company)

I forgot to add a good place to find out more information and probably pictures is at a Borders or Barnes and Noble bookstore. You can look them up. I know they make books because I have seen them on Ebay. They would be under the collectibles section and look up cabinets.

Good luck and that looks like a fun project.
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