Berkey and Gay furnure is some of the most valuable furnure on the market. The pany has been around sce the 1800s and their furnure…
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- BERKEY & GAY FURNURE CO.
- BERKEY & GAY FURNURE
- BERKEY AND GAY FURNURE CO. - BAXTER, 1891
- HOW MUCH IS BERKEY AND GAY FURNURE WORTH
- A VIS TO BERKEY & GAY FURNURE CO., 1878
- TRA TALOGS OM BERKEY & GAY FURNURE CO.
- IS BERKEY AND GAY FURNURE VALUABLE
- BERKEY & GAY FURNURE STYLE BOOK
- BERKEY & GAY WARDROBE, INTERR
- BERKEY AND GAY
BERKEY & GAY FURNURE CO.
Berkey and Gay furnure is worth a lot of money. The pany has been around for centuri and their furnure is very well ma. It… * berkey and gay furniture history *
Gay be partner Berkey Brothers & Co. ; name is changed to Berkey Brothers & Gay. 1873: Company is rporated as Berkey & Gay.
BERKEY & GAY FURNURE
* berkey and gay furniture history *
1876: Berkey & Gay is one of three Grand Rapids pani to w an award for s display at the Philalphia Centennial Exposn.
BERKEY AND GAY FURNURE CO. - BAXTER, 1891
1911: Berkey & Gay acquir Oriel Cabet Co.
HOW MUCH IS BERKEY AND GAY FURNURE WORTH
Are merged wh Berkey & Gay as the Consolidated Furnure Compani.
Of Chigo acquir Berkey & Gay’s $10 ln assets, cludg 5 Grand Rapids plants wh 1. 1931: Sal cle sharply; Berkey & Gay forced to clare bankptcy. 1935: Berkey & Gay re-opens unr new management.
A VIS TO BERKEY & GAY FURNURE CO., 1878
Gay, the son of an early partner the bs, Gee Gay, beme a proment lear of both the pany and the muny, and sat on the boards of m any banks and civic anizatn. Cabetmaker John Frohberg (or Froburgh) may have created signs for Berkey & Gay the early 1870s. John Keck of Ann Arbor, Michigan, signed Renaissance Revival, Neo-Grec, and Eastlake-style piec on ntract for Berkey & Gay the 1870s.
TRA TALOGS OM BERKEY & GAY FURNURE CO.
Frerick Koskul and John Mowatt signed for Berkey & Gay between 1877 and 1879.
IS BERKEY AND GAY FURNURE VALUABLE
Arthur Kirkpatrick, who grew up Grand Rapids, received formal art trag before he beme a signer at Berkey & Gay.
Adrian Margant signed piec Goln Oak and Colonial styl for Berkey & Gay om 1898 until his ath 1914.
BERKEY & GAY FURNURE STYLE BOOK
Many Berkey & Gay signs required a nsirable amount of hand craftsmanship, so the pany cultivated large partments of rvers and rators.
Some cludg Fred Weber and Chris Haraldstadt, grew up Ameri but me om regns of Germany and Norway that were known for their rvg tradns, and worked for forty years or more at Berkey & Gay. Others, like Florente master rver Leopold Baillot, and Japane rator Fugi Nakamiso, were reced through Amerin foreign embassi to brg their experience overseas, to work for Berkey & Gay. Bee of the pany’s size and longevy, llectors seem to enunter Berkey & Gay products more equently than those of any other Grand Rapids pany.
Berkey & Gay palized on the public’s tert whole su of “sus” of furnure, which clud everythg need for bedrooms and dg rooms. In fact, Berkey & Gay’s products of this perd have bee synonymo wh the term “Grand Rapids furnure” the mds of many llectors.
BERKEY & GAY WARDROBE, INTERR
It also noted that Berkey & Gay did not make s own parlor am, but purchased them om Holton & Hildreth of Chigo, then pleted the upholstery for s own retail tra.
BERKEY AND GAY
1890 – 1915: As nsumer style preferenc changed, so did Berkey & Gay, but the feelg of massivens and strength s furnure remaed.