Stickley Brothers Furniture: Identification & Value Guide (Identification & Values) [Paperback]

Larry Koon (Author)

Book Description

Series: Identification & Values | Publication Date: November 2003

Stickley Brothers Furniture features armchairs, bookcases, chests, desks, rockers, footstools, dressers, tables, sideboards, and much more, produced by Stickely from 1892 to 1954. A brief history on Stickley Brothers Furniture Company opens the book, followed by the photo gallery and listings, which include model number, description, size, condition, identifying marks, signature information, and current collector value. This guide will become the definitive reference on Stickley Brothers furniture. AUTHORBIO: Larry Koon has published two titles with Collector Books, Roycroft Furniture & Collectibles and Stickley Brothers Furniture. He is also the author of Lee Middleton Original Dolls Price Guide, published by Hobby House Press, and Annalee Mobilitee Dolls Price Guide, for Portfolio Press. He writes a week antiques column for the Marietta Times newspaper in Marietta, Ohio. REVIEW: This book is dedicated to five very famous brothers: Gustav, Charles, Albert, John, and Leopold Stickley, makers of fine furniture and accessories, who were each separately involved at different times and at different workshops in designing and producing their own furniture lines such as bookcases, dressers, chests of drawers, sideboards, beds, and other furniture items during the Arts and Crafts movement.

Product Details

• Paperback: 238 pages
• Publisher: Collector Books (November 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1574323695
• ISBN-13: 978-1574323696
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,586,462 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Larry Koon author of "Price Guide to Rookwood Pottery Wall Plaques" is also author of several other books on antiques & collectibiles, suck as the "Price Guide to Stickley Brothers Furniture" including "Price Guide To Roycroft Furniture" both published by Collector Books. Paducah, Kentucky,Larry was the first to ever write a book on Specialized Auction Houses around the country who specialize in selling hundreds of antiques and collectibiles from A to Z, titled "North American Auction Markets" published by Gordons Art Reference , which he updates every year for his own publishing Company titled "Auction Markets" Larry is also an antiques newspaper columnist and writes a weekly column titled "Treasure in the Attic" for Marietta Times . Marietta. Ohio, and other newspapers, Larry Hails from Ripley ,West Virginia, his dreams was always to be a country music singer, or a writer, his records he recorded are today listed in Jerry Osbornes Record Price Guide,Larry today is interested in writing other books especially resource guides for antique buyers and sellers,especially where to buy and sell for prices listed in Price guide books ,Larry has helped hundreds of readers through his weekly newspaper column sell there items through some of the worlds largest auction houses such as Treadway Galleries, Garths, Cincinnati auction Galleries and many other auction houses

Customer Reviews

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A very poorly done book : not "als ik kan", February 14, 2006

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David Mcclain (Houston, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stickley Brothers Furniture: Identification & Value Guide (Identification & Values) (Paperback)

I never write reviews but I really feel ripped off by this book and I would like others to be able to avoid that.

I bought this book after acquiring an early Stickley Brothers dining room set (table, chairs, buffet, china cabinet) and I wanted to find out more about them. Where better to start than with a book called "Stickley Brothers Furniture?"

If you know anything about Stickley furniture (and I don't profess to be an expert), you know that there were several brothers who manufactured arts and crafts furniture, under several company names. There was Gustav Stickley, Stickley Brothers Furniture Company, L & JG Stickley Furniture Company, Stickley/Brandt Furniture Company, etc.

Out of 238 pages in the book, 126 are devoted to Gustav Stickley and 31 devoted to Stickley Brothers. The rest are devoted to very spotty coverage of L & JG Stickley and Charles Stickley (who gets all of 8 pages). So the book titled "Stickley Brothers Furniture" devotes maybe 15 percent of its content to Stickley Brothers furniture.

While the illustrations are very attractive (evenly lit, in focus, no distracting background), they are apparently all lifted from a single auction house's catalogs. This is clearly with the auction house's consent as there is a lengthy piece about how great the auctioneers are (presumably the price for using their photos).

There is virtually no real effort at scholarship or teaching ways to "identify and value" the furniture, though the prices realized at auction (no date given) are included.

So for your money, you get virtually nothing but the catalog entries for a miscellaneous lot of furniture that happened to go through that particular auction house's inventory.

This is not a book that will increase your understanding of Stickley furniture (and particularly Stickley Brothers furniture) unless you have never read anything about this topic in your life. And if that's the case, you would be much better served with another book. There are quite a lot of good ones out there.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Stickley book a great buy, March 12, 2009

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Karron Kennedy (Jacksonville, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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the book was great with hundreds of pictures. It was very helpful. Service was excellent and the price was great too.

1 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow!, April 15, 2005

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Ginger G. Pierce "Ginger*bread" (MADISON, AL) - See all my reviews
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The graphics in this volume are outstanding! The book is a highly informative volume for Stickley furniture.