"Louis XVI Style Mahogany Planter Stamped From Mailfert"
Planter oval mahogany and stained wood, 4 feet fluted spines hooves and bronze wheels, the 4 sides paneled adorned with a frieze of pearls, and two "handles" lion's muzzle, inside with a zinc tray, a gallery of openwork bronze scalloped, Louis XVI style work, made by Mailfert House in Orleans in the early twentieth, brand Salambre in Dessous, struck with iron ... André Mailfert is an industrialist, cabinetmaker and forger. ......... who creates in Orleans in 1904 a company manufacturing fake furniture to deceive !!, he is one of the best known forgers The gardener presented here, is a good example, it is composed of wood old to do the stuffing !! Nevertheless, pretty model, elegant, presented in his "juice" 
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