Dovetail antiques completes $18,000 online order of antique furniture purchased through TIAS.com Dovetail antiques completes $18000 sale of a spectacular collection of antique wicker furniture purchased through their TIAS.com store by an anonymous buyer in California
News-Antique.com - Oct 10,2011 - Garden City, New York - October 11, 2011 - Online antiques & collectibles mall TIAS.com today reported that Dovetail Antiques, one of their member merchants, fulfilled an $18,000 online order for antique wicker furniture purchased from their site. The order was placed through the TIAS.com antique mall by an anonymous collector in California.
Dovetail antiques hosts one of the finest collections of investment quality, authentic, antique, wicker furniture for sale on the Internet. For over 10 years TIAS.com has been privileged to host Dovetail's Web site and online catalog.
"We've been assisting online antiques & collectibles merchants like Dovetail antiques for almost 17 years now. It's not as unusual as it once was to see transactions of this size on TIAS.com. What makes this sale really exciting for us is that the purchase was for such a large collection of antique furniture." said Phillip Davies President of TIAS.com "Buyers are becoming much more comfortable about placing online orders for large merchandise."
About Dovetail Antiques
Dovetail Antiques offer for sale a variety of styles of the highest quality, authentic period antique wicker furniture (circa 1870 – 1930) available in the marketplace today. We personally select each piece and carefully restore the piece to its original condition. Dovetail Antiques deals only with antique pieces of wicker that are useful, possess aesthetic value and are of investment quality. See: www.tias.com/stores/dovetail/
About TIAS.com
--About TIAS--
TIAS.com was voted by About.com readers as the "Best Place to Buy" antiques & collectibles online in 2011. TIAS lists well over 580,000 items for sale online and serves approximately 700,000 unique visitors each month. About 400 merchants sell through the TIAS system. The company has been building Web stores for merchants since 1995. To open an online shop with TIAS.com please visit http://www.MakeAShop.com visit us on facebook at:
http://www.facebook.com/TIASAntiques
For more information contact:
Phillip Davies, TIAS.com Inc.
516-294-3161
Phil@tias.com
Photo Caption -- This is a very rare early Victorian wicker arm chair that has an exotic Oriental look with elaborate fancy work throughout. The crest has fancy reed-work and a cushioned head rest. Below that, a panel of wood turned spools and reed circles, followed by a back cushion and then a panel of latticework followed by a panel of wood turned spools and circles. This patten is repeated on the sides along with other fancy reed-work. The arms begin and end with curlicues. They are made up of shapely panels of latticework with cane wrapping. Latticework panels on the sides and front skirtings. Shapely curlicue design ends off the front skirting. Cane wrapping throughout. This chair has a set in upholstered seat that can be removed for upholstering, along with the 2 upholstered back panels. This chair would look stunning with an Oriental fabric.The legs are splayed with reed wrapped balls ending in wood caps. This is a large and substantial Victorian wicker arm chair.
