{"id":931,"date":"2005-03-01T16:00:47","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T21:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/framingham.com\/wordpress\/?p=931"},"modified":"2010-06-28T02:06:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T07:06:36","slug":"wallace-nutting-chest-sells-for-18700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2005\/03\/01\/arts-culture\/wallace-nutting-chest-sells-for-18700\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallace Nutting Chest Sells for $18,700"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FRAMINGHAM, MA -<\/strong> Decades before Martha Stewart, Wallace Nutting, whose home and office were in Framingham, held sway over popular home furnishings and taste.\u00a0 Nutting's <a title=\"Old America Company, Wallace Nutting, Framingham Mass. USA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oldamericacompany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Old America Company<\/a> was located on Park St., in Downtown Framingham and produced prints, picture frames and reprodution furniture in the 1920's-30's.<\/p>\n<p>A leader of the Colonial Revival movement, he helped Americans rediscover and appreciate their local and historic treasures through his nostalgic photographs, travel books like \"<em>Massachusetts Beautiful<\/em>\" and quality reproduction colonial furniture.<\/p>\n<p>Today his works are sought after. There is a collectors society and an auctioneer, Michael Ivankovich, of Doylestown, PA, specializes in selling Nutting items.<\/p>\n<p>Ivankovich recently sold a Nutting mahogany Goddard block front chest at auction for $ 18,700. It was the third highest price ever paid for a piece of Nutting furniture. The others were a highboy for $33,000 and a Goddard desk secretary for $ 36,750.<\/p>\n<p><em>(For more information about Nutting, see our <a title=\"Wallace Nutting, Framingham Historic Profiles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.framingham.com\/history\/profiles\/nutting\/index.htm\">Wallace Nutting<\/a> historic profile page).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRAMINGHAM, MA &#8211; Decades before Martha Stewart, Wallace Nutting, whose home and office were in Framingham, held sway over popular home furnishings and taste.\u00a0 Nutting&#8217;s Old America Company was located on Park St., in Downtown Framingham and produced prints, picture frames and reprodution furniture in the 1920&#8217;s-30&#8217;s. A leader of the Colonial Revival movement, he helped Americans&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2005\/03\/01\/arts-culture\/wallace-nutting-chest-sells-for-18700\/\">[read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[398,399,120,397,396],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture","tag-antiques","tag-famous-people","tag-history","tag-old-america-company","tag-wallace-nutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":933,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}