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This article will show you how to date Paine furniture.
You may have inherited a piece of Paine furniture (it sure looks ancient) but you want to have an idea about its exact age and possibly its value as well.
The Paine’s Furniture Company, considered once to be the biggest furniture maker and distributor in America
It was founded by Leonard B. Shearer in 1835 (not under the official name of Paine’s Furniture Company yet), John Paine would join him later in 1845 when the name changed to Shearer & Paine in 1854.
It officially became the Paine Furniture Company in 1864 upon the death of Shearer.
By 1914, the Paine Furniture building was constructed and designed by Densmore and Leclear. Production continued until 1980 when the building was sold.
Paine’s Patio, founded by a sixth-generation Shearer family in 2003 has since repl