Quaint Art is in fact not Stickley Bros., correct?

Any info on this company?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Signed-Stickley-Library-Table-Missi...QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Neat little table, and you're correct its not one of the Stickleys (so the seller is mistaken, but hey its eBay).

Quaint Art Furniture Co.
- Syracuse, NY, 1909-1916
- general good quality line
- shop marks: 1) oval paper label w/oval black outline around company name, and 2) rectangular paper label w/company name, style number and finish

I guess the eBay piece label is a third type or its specifically for shipping because it says Shipping Dept. on the bottom.

Given that this company was in Syracuse it was probably one that irked Gus a fair bit. The little bit of info I've read says however that they did make decent stuff and this table looks pretty good with the pegged tenons etc.

Cool. Thanks for the info Stonecat. I agree that it looks like a nice quality piece. Nice hardware and good finish on the top with no stains. I don't see very many that have well done pegged tendons that aren't top tier/well known makers. However, I think the split/double lower stetcher looks a little odd. Also, before I saw the tag I thought it wasn't Stickley since it had a different mechanism to attach the top than the "crazy eights" that Stickley used. But, did Stickley ALWAYS use the crazy eights? It is evident that this alternative mechanism is not as effective since the top is warping.

I'm no expert, but isn't the Quaint furniture referring to Stickley Bros out of Grand Rapids Michigan? I have a chair from Quaint I bought in Wisconsin. It's "a" Stickley, just not Gustav! Am trying to remember the names of the brothers who started Quaint, is one George?

It's a little confusing, but the "Quaint Art Furniture Co." is not the same as "Stickley Bros." Stickley Bros were indeed from Grand Rapids and their furniture line (not their company name) was called either 'Quaint Furniture' or 'Quaint Furniture in Arts and Crafts' (which they used in catalog titles) and they used shopmarks with the word Quaint. The Quaint Art Furniture Co. is a slightly different name but is obviously borrowed from the Stickley Bros. use of the term. Theres a little bit of a write-up about Quaint Art Furniture Co. in the "Official Price Guide to American Arts and Crafts" (2003) that says they were better than the majority of lesser-known companies, and there is reference to the summer 1996 issue of Style1900 magazine which has an article about "The Best of the Rest" if you really want to hunt info. There are a few pictures on the web if you Google as well.

The history of all the brothers is a criss crossing of paths but by the time they were all making A&C or Mission style it went like this:

Craftsman Workshops - Gustav Stickley
L. & J.G. Stickley - Leopold and John George Stickley
Stickley Bros. - Albert Stickley (confusing because it wasn't brothers it was just one brother)
Stickley & Brandt - Charles Stickley

As far as the 'crazy eight' connectors, I don't know if they were used all the time, haven't seen enough pieces really to know, but probably not in the earlier years - seems like a later thing. L&JG used these a fair bit as well.

Stonecat - You are close on one detail, but not quite right. Stickley Bros. was Albert and J.G. or John George. J.G. worked interchangeably between many brothers and was a sales rep more than an office/foreman type. Little is mentioned about him, but ironically he represented the goods, and that's what matters.

I've got JG as working with Albert up to his resignation in 1901 (other refs say 1902) and S. Bros. only really introduced A&C furniture in either 1899 or 1900, so he really didn't have much involvement with the A&C stuff at S. Bros. JG and Leopold were officially in business in 1902 (first called Onondaga Shops) but I have a reference that says JG briefly represented S. Bros. in 1903, but thats it, no extra detail. JG was certainly active with Albert and S. Bros for the last decade of the 1800s but this was before the real A&C period. My summary above is just that, a summary, basically a point in time when they were all doing A&C in separate companies as noted (which I guess would be around 1909ish when Charles finally did A&C). At one point back in about 1890 all of the brothers were actually officially part of S. Bros.