Why are dressers listed as bookcases?

Pine shelving was rarely built for one job. Kitchen dressers, housekeeper's cupboards and wall cupboards all hold books as readily as china, and dealers file them where buyers look for open and glazed shelving. A fifth of the listings under this heading are dressers, with cupboards a further large block. Glazed dressers and kitchen cupboards recur throughout.

What does waterfall mean on a pine bookcase?

It describes a graduated open bookcase, the shelves stepping outward and downward so the piece is widest at the base. Four tiers is a common count. Around seventeen titles use the word, and most of those also carry a Regency label. Pairs turn up occasionally.

Is original paint better than stripped pine?

The listings sort that way. Original painted, in original paint and original cream paint recur among the highest-priced entries. Stripped, later painted and wax-over-paint surfaces sit lower in the range. Painted appears in around sixty titles, more often than any construction detail.

How old are most pine bookcases on the market?

Victorian and 19th Century together cover roughly half of the dated entries on Sellingantiques, so a great many are placed only inside a hundred-year window. Early twentieth-century decade labels are common, and Regency and Edwardian form smaller pockets. A few reach back to the Georgian period, the earliest dated at 1745.

A dense, resinous softwood with strong figure, harder and heavier than common pine. It shows a marked grain pattern. Around twenty-four titles name it, and Scottish, ecclesiastical and institutional pieces cluster there. Arts and Crafts examples appear among them.

Do pine bookcases come in pairs?

They do, more often than you might expect. Nine titles mention a pair, including pairs of waterfall bookcases, painted open bookcases and Swedish bookcases. Sets appear too, at the larger end, alongside library and breakfront pieces.

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Softwood shelving and storage furniture, from open-shelved bookcases and glazed cabinets to kitchen dressers, made as inexpensive furniture for houses, kitchens, offices, schools and institutions.