Making Antique Furniture Reproductions: Instructions and Measured Drawings for 40 Classic Projects

437 Pages·2012·15.93 MB·English

by  Franklin H. Gottshall

Chippendale Partner’s Desk. PROPERTY OF MERLE M. MILLER, M.D.,
GERMANTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

Copyright
Copyright © 1971 by Franklin H. Gottshall.
All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright
Conventions.
Bibliographical Note This Dover edition, first published in 1994, is an
unabridged republication of Reproducing Antique Furniture, originally
published by Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, in 1971. The frontispiece, in
color in the original edition, has been reproduced here in black-and-white.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gottshall, Franklin H.
Making antique furniture reproductions : instructions and measured drawings for
40 classic projects / Franklin H. Gottshall.
p. cm.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Crown Publishers, 1971 under title:
Reproducing antique furniture.
9780486161648
1. Furniture making—Amateurs’ manuals. I. Gottshall, Franklin H. Reproducing
antique furniture.
TT195.G674 1994
684.1’042—dc20 93-48643 CIP
Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501
This book is affectionately dedicated to my wife, Agnes
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Foreword
ONE - Some Useful Fundamentals of Gabinetmaking
TWO - Furniture Fishing
THREE - Hardware
FOUR - Nested Tables: Set of Four
FIVE - Rested Tables: Set of Two
SIX - Queen Anne Tea Table
SEVEN - Queen Anne Pembroke Table
EIGHT - Queen Anne Handkerchief Table
NINE - Queen Anne Lowboy
TEN - Small Jheraton Table
ELEVEN - Sheraton Bench
TWELVE - Kneading Trough
THIRTEEN - Snake-Foot Tilt-Top Table
FOURTEEN - Duncan Phyfe Library Table
FIFTEEN - Duncan Phyfe Dining Table
SIXTEEN - Sheraton, Drop-Leaf Dining Table
SEVENTEEN - Sheraton Goffee Table
EIGHTEEN - Sheraton Dressing Table and Mirror
NINETEEN - Heplewhite Four-Poster Bed
TWENTY - Sheraton Four-Poster Bed
TWENTY-ONE - Grandfather Glock
TWENTY-TWO - Zueen Anne Chest-on-Frame
TWENTY-THREE - Ghippendale Partner’s Desk
TWENTY-FOUR - Early American Dresses
TWENTY-FIVE - Dutch Cupboard
TWENTY-SIX - Block Front Ghest-on-Ghest
TWENTY-SEVEN - Carved Shell-Top GornerGupboard
TWENTY-EIGHT - Queen Anne Gorner Gupboard
TWENTY-NINE - Silver Ghest
THIRTY - Spice Gabinet
THIRTY-ONE - Bachelor’s Ghest
THIRTY-TWO - Salem Chest of Drawers.
THIRTY-THREE - Ghippendale Fretwork Mirror Frame
THIRTY-FOUR - Hepplewhite Upholstered Armchair.
THIRTY-FIVE - Windsor Side Chair
THIRTY-SIX - Queen Anne Side Chair
THIRTY-SEVEN - Chippendale Ladder-Back Side Chair
THIRTY-EIGHT - Chippendale Ladder-Back Armchair.
THIRTY-NINE - Chippendale Pierced Splat-Back Chair
FORTY - Chippendale Upholstered Wing Chair
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgments
THE author wishes to express thanks to the following for material help in the
preparation of this book.
To his son Bruce H. Gottshall who has done the greater part of the photographic
work in this book.
To Mr. Robert Treate Hogg, cabinetmaker of Oxford, Pennsylvania, for
permission to take measurements, make working drawings, and take
photographs of many of the fine reproductions built in his workshop. Mr. Hogg
also has been most generous in giving of his time and technical advice in the
preparation of this book, for which the author is extremely grateful.
To Mr. William Ball of Ball and Ball, reproducers of antique hardware for fine
period furniture, for permission to photograph and reproduce much of the
hardware shown on the plates in the chapter on hardware.
To The Modern Technical Tools and Supply Co., 211 Nevada Street, Hicksville,
New York, for information regarding their clock movements and supplies.
To Mason and Sullivan of 39 Blossom Avenue, Osterville, Massachusetts, for
information regarding clock movements and supplies.
To McKinney Manufacturing Company, Scranton, Pennsylvania, for permission
to photograph wrought-iron hardware manufactured by them and shown on Plate
2 in the chapter on hardware.
To Mr. Lewis Hamrick for help in getting photographs of chairs made by the
author’s students at Berry College.
To Berry College, Mt. Berry, Georgia, for permission to photograph furniture
built in classes conducted by the author and to use them in the preparation of this
book.
To Mr. Richard L. Malmberg, proprietor of Malmberg Antique Shop,
Boyertown, Pennsylvania, for permission to photograph the Queen Anne
highboy, and the grandfather clock in his collection and to make drawings of
these for this book.