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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:57 am    Post subject: Roycroft GPI chair Reply with quote
Up to $1780 already and still hasn't met reserve. Is it worth that and more? At least this one looks real, unlike the ones by an Ashville NC seller that keep getting relisted and then mysteriously disappear before they end...

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Not worth it to me - that's why I quit bidding at $1500. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sorry, I didn't mean to outbid you then...

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Roycroft chairs, or furniture in general, carries a premium just because there's less of it to begin with than the other first tier Gus, LJG etc. companies. Anything with GPI provenance is going to add even more premium. I'll try to find old some auction prices today.

Obviously there's a whole story to the GPI selling off lots of furnishings years ago but I've only caught bits and pieces. I think there's a GPI history book (by Bruce Johnson maybe/probably?) that might explain it.

The eBay guy in Asheville with the Roycroft chairs is pretty perplexing. He lists chairs with GPI logos and interchangeably calls them Roycoft and/or White Brothers (who helped carry out the commission to furnish GPI in 1912) even though they are unmarked with a shop mark. White Brothers has a tag that says "The White Line, The Right Line" but I've never seen a picture. Some of the pieces still in the GPI are supposed to have this I believe. He's listed arm chairs that look just like this one and sold them within minutes literally at BINs of a few hundred dollars. I remember seeing Mishunaire (the big warehouse place affiliated with Fontaines) buy these. His un-tagged side chairs he sells for less than 200 I think?! He's also had "one of kind" Roycroft rockers.

Of course, this looks suspiciously like reproduction dumping, but maybe he just has hordes of the old chairs bought from the GPI - its hard to tell really. He definately sells reproductions of other things like copper lamps and trays, and even carpets (and he at least notes the carpets to be repros). I remember he listed a copper lamp as Van Erp style but unmarked, shady pictures, but it looked the style. It went for 6 or 7 hundred and the feedback he got was neutral with the comment "cheap Mexican lamp". He then started selling more of the same lamps at BINs for a couple hundred and people gobbled them up. Crazy
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yeah, I'd concur that the items from that seller struck me as reproductions. I don't even bother watching them anymore.

Remember the Grove Park Inn pool table on eBay back in January earlier this year right before the GPI event (pictures have since been removed unfortunately)? It didn't meet reserve and I always wondered what happened to it. Interestingly the seller is listed at -1 now on feedback.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
GPI chairs, pool table, and that recent eBay ceiling fixture - I just ordered a copy of the Grove Park history book (yes by Bruce Johnson) to see what all the fuss is about Cool
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 3:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Anything with GPI provenance is going to add even more premium. I'll try to find old some auction prices today.


Rago in Dec. '97 (pre Jerry C./Craftsman) had four GPI Roycroft arm chairs estimated at 2500-3500 each. Unfortunately no results this far back on the Rago site.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 2:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ended at 1975, didn't make reserve.
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