Need Help Identifying This King Kelly Cabinet

[calvindog]

The mount is certainly real and period. I’m not sure I believe someone would make the effort to put that card onto that mount years later. Crazy rare image, I’ve never seen anything like it.

[griffon512]

Have these two steps been taken?

1. A web search that has found any period cabinets from Wright Studio with a similar design. (I was not able to find any)

2. Trying to find a tenant/ownership history for that address. If the records are thorough it could narrow down a date of production. It looks like 1145 Columbus Ave in Boston but it's hard to tell from the pic of the mount. If that address is correct call the Registry of Deeds, Suffolk County, MA office with this link: https://massrods.com/suffolk/. I'd feel more confident that it is authentic and period to the 19th Century if there were other examples from that studio and more obvious signs of aging on a black mount that is assumed to be 120+ years old. It's not hard to figure out that a period King Kelly cabinet is potentially worth tens of thousands of dollars so I wouldn't presume that this item is original without more digging. The best thing it has going for it right now is the other items in the Hindman lot.

[Pat R]

Originally Posted by griffon512

Have these two steps been taken?

1. A web search that has found any period cabinets from Wright Studio with a similar design. (I was not able to find any)

2. Trying to find a tenant/ownership history for that address. If the records are thorough it could narrow down a date of production. It looks like 1145 Columbus Ave in Boston but it's hard to tell from the pic of the mount. If that address is correct call the Registry of Deeds, Suffolk County, MA office with this link: https://massrods.com/suffolk/. I'd feel more confident that it is authentic and period to the 19th Century if there were other examples from that studio and more obvious signs of aging on a black mount that is assumed to be 120+ years old. It's not hard to figure out that a period King Kelly cabinet is potentially worth tens of thousands of dollars so I wouldn't presume that this item is original without more digging. The best thing it has going for it right now is the other items in the Hindman lot.

Wright studio address in 1902
Wright Studio The_Boston_Globe_Sun__Mar_16__1902_.jpg

[griffon512]

Originally Posted by Pat R

Wright studio address in 1902
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Good find

[GoCubsGo32]

Are you able to take a picture of it outside the top loader?

Very cool find!