2nd opinion on 1800s dress

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Hi! Would love to get a 2nd opinion on dating this lovely brown changeable silk dress & jacket, I believe circa 1800s - 1820s. The jacket is hand quilted, but the styling throws me off a little. Would also like ball park on value, $2000.00 - $3000.00 ??? Thanks!!

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Nice items! However, the dress and jacket are not a matching set. With those puffed gigot sleeves, the dress is late 1820's- very early 1830's depending how how current the wearer was with styles.

The jacket looks to be a house jacket which would have been worn for casual use and extra warmth in the house. With those coat style sleeves, I would date it to the second half of the 1860's.

Lei
 
Hi, & thanks for reply. I was thinking 1800s to 1820s on the dress because the empire waist seemed high enough & was even let down about 1" at some point, but then I thought the large gigot sleeves came about the in the 1820s. The jacket was throwing me off the same time period because of sleeves & cut, but then it really seems to be a match with the fabric & it is all handstitched. I guess I would have figured there would have been some machine stitching for a later piece, but thats not always true. Thanks again for your info! Do you have any ideas on value? I was thinking $800.00- $1000.00 for dress & I guess Im not sure on the jacket. Would love to hear what you think for values. Thanks!!
love4vintage
 
I can't speak to the jacket, but the dress is identical in silhouette to a dress I just handled with a specific 1830 provenance.

Condition is so much of the value. My dress was in Fair condition with holes and stains but had wedding provenance. It sold on ebay for $325 or thereabouts.

If this is in excellent condition with no noticeable flaws, you might be looking at triple that. But that is only a guess.


Hollis
 
Hi, I guess I was in the right ball park, any guesses for the jacket, I know usually anything handquilted does fairly well. Thanks!
 
THe lining of the jacket uses bits of fabrics that look 1830s/40s to me and the cut of the sleeves put it into the 1860s. As a garment it doesn't have a lot of collectability because its not high fashion and its not naive home-spun either -- its somewhere in between. The money is in the dress, not the jacket, but if the jacket was mine I would hope to get 100ish for it.
 
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