Merrow Associates type cabinet

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cada

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04/08/2011 4:40 am

I have bought this compact rosewood and chrome drinks cabinet. I do like it and the quality is superb - I bought it with some Merrow Associates pieces from the same house (all originally bought in Heals) but I can't figure who made this...any Merrow heads out there have a clue? Or anyone willing to have a guess?

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04/08/2011 4:47 am

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Looks to me like someone attacked it with a router, some banding and jazzed it up with their own hardware, can't help with an ID.

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Robert Leach

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04/08/2011 1:28 pm

DEFINITELY
not Merrow Associates.
Quite an odd looking piece for Heals at that time.
Looks possibly more Italian to me?

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Arthur Sixpence

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04/08/2011 2:12 pm

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I have seen a Archie Shine cabinet which is very similar but with brass handles.

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Robert Leach

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04/08/2011 2:32 pm

Archie Shine
used similar hardware in brass, but there's a little more, shall we say, 'economy of design' in their pieces.
(usually Robert Heritage designs, although I believe they also made for Heal's themselves)

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Robert Leach

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04/08/2011 2:33 pm

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Robert Leach

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04/08/2011 4:56 pm

And a Merrow Associates piece
to compare.

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04/08/2011 6:09 pm

This was sold at the Reeman Dansie auction yesterday....
along with the other Merrow pieces

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cada

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04/08/2011 7:38 pm

yes, it's the exact model as...
yes, it's the exact model as in the picture, I agree Robert & Arthur - although there are many similarities with Archie Shine I have seen - in particular the marble top sideboard. I have an Archie Shine Rosewood dining table and the quality of this cabinet is maybe better, but certainly there has been a rather different eye applied to the piece, as this does smack a bit of neo-classicism in my humble opinion. The rosewood is such a good match for my Archie Shine and a few Merrow bits that I forgive it though.

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