Can you help me identify and value my vintage Limbert’s Arts and Crafts Furniture?
Many people assume that when we acquired Limbert’s Arts and Crafts Furniture, we also acquired the old company’s buildings, tools, patterns, samples, archives, spare parts, etc. This is not the case. In fact, the unfortunate truth is that virtually none of this seems to have survived. The old factory in Grand Rapids, Michigan, while still in existence at the corner of Front Street and Butterworth, is now abandoned. The factory which was in Holland was simply demolished and later converted to a nursing home and offices which are now called Freedom Village. Tools, spare parts and other usable materiel were auctioned more than eighty years ago, patterns and tooling appear to have been discarded, and most records from the old company were either destroyed or have passed into private hands. Consequently much information appears to have been lost. What information we have available is presented here in the hope it will prove useful. However our ability to answer these types of questions is l
