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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2003 Feb 24 @ 18:00UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT
<p>17th. Century Original Flandern Hand Crafted Oak Cabinet
<p>This cabinet came from a Louis XV style castle from Flandern, north of Antwerp built in 1679. Among some of the visitors to this castle at that time was a famous painter named Pieter Paulus Ruben. Out of admiration of this painter, the owner of the castle the Duke of Moretus commissioned the “Ruben’s Cabinet”, the carving in the center of the cabinet door is a reflection of this painter.
<p>During the French Revolution in 1792, and through other war years the furniture including this cabinet and tapestries and paintings were hidden in the labyrinth of corridors underneath the castle.
<p>It was in the late 1950’s when the last member of the Moretus family died and all the belongings from the castle were sold and the money went to restore the castle which has since been turned into a cultural center.
<p>For centuries cabinetmakers in Flandern continued to build a variety of buffet style oak cabinets, but the “Ruben’s Cabinet” is a one of a kind and an amazing example of pure craftsmanship and style. Besides the full figure of Ruben in the center of the buffet other men of distinction, reflective of this time period are individually carved in this cabinet.
<p>A young immigrant family brought the cabinet to Canada in 1980, and it has only now become available for auction for the first time.
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<P>The property in today's sale will be offered by Auctioneer as agent for the Consignor
according to the following terms and conditions:
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source, origin, condition, etc.
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property is sold.
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in his estimation, prove injurious to the sale.
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distinction or preference shown to such Consignor or Agent should he become the
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including, without limitation, the right to hold the purchaser liable for the bid price, the
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payments made by the purchaser or (b) re-sell the property publicly or privately, and in
such event the purchaser shall be liable for the payment of any deficiency plus all costs,
including storage, the expenses of both sales, Auctioneer commission at its regular rate and
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will he delivered only on the presentation of a paid bill. Auctioneer shall not be responsible for
goods not removed within the time specified, and shall have the option of removing and
storing at the expense and risk of the purchaser any article purchased, but not paid for and
removed within the specified time. Non-delivery responsibility - Auctioneer shall not
in any event, be liable for non-delivery or for any other matter or thing, to any purchaser
of any lot, other than for the return to the purchaser or the deposit or sum paid on said lot,
should the purchaser be entitled to it.
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able to make many advantageous purchases.