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2. Globe Wernicke - Wikipedia

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   These glass-fronted shelves are today collectible antiques highly desired by collectors. With regularity, these bookcases appear in auctions and internet sites and, what originally cost $75 or so will now be sold for $900 or more. [1] During World War II 90% of the company's business in the US was converted to produce military equipment.

3. Bookcase - Wikipedia

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   A bookcase may be fitted with glass doors [2] that can be closed to protect the books from dust or moisture. Bookcase doors are almost always glazed with glass, so as to allow the spines of the books to be read. [3] Especially valuable rare books may be kept in locked cases with wooden or glazed doors.

4. Louis XVI furniture - Wikipedia

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   Some other specialized cabinets appeared under Louis XVI, thanks to the improved technology for making larger panes of glass. These included bibliotheques or bookcases with glass doors, and Vitrines, or cabinets with glass doors, where precious objects could be displayed. These had very ornate marquetry patterns on the doors in the earlier ...

5. François Linke - Wikipedia

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   A Superb Quality French 19th/20th Century Louis XV Style Ormolu Mounted Kingwood, Satinwood and Satine Single Door Figural Vitrine by Renown Master Craftsman and Cabinet Maker François Linke, fitted to the front with a beveled glass door opening to an oak interior with eight shelves. Signed: F. Linke to mount centering the apron. Circa: Paris ...

6. Lauder Greenway Estate - Wikipedia

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   It has 12 bedrooms scattered among the top two floors, seven full baths, and two powder rooms. A dark cherry wood-paneled library with curving corners and glass-fronted bookcases typical of the Victorian era sits off of a three-story wood-paneled entry. The dining room has oak columns, a fireplace, and an ornate plaster tracery ceiling.

7. Cabinet of curiosities - Wikipedia

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   The earliest pictorial record of a natural history cabinet is the engraving in Ferrante Imperato's Dell'Historia Naturale (Naples 1599) (illustration).It serves to authenticate its author's credibility as a source of natural history information, by showing his open bookcases (at the right), in which many volumes are stored lying down and stacked, in the medieval fashion, or with their spines ...