Mouse Carved On Furniture
He was born and lived in kilburn north yorkshire england where he set up a business manufacturing oak furniture which featured a carved mouse on almost every piece.
Mouse carved on furniture. In fact just by looking at the pieces most avid collectors of robert thompson s furniture can tell which craftsman made the piece. See more ideas about thompson carving robert thompson. This iconic design was fist created by robert thompson who born in 1876 and was the son of a local joiner.
Each craftsman starts a piece of furniture and remains responsible for it from selecting the wood to carving the signature mouse. Robert mouseman thompson 7 may 1876 8 december 1955 was a british furniture maker. From then on thompson s furniture has carried the mouseman label and the characteristic little carved mouse somewhere on the piece.
The mouse has also changed over time. Visitors to the centre can pass through rooms set in the 1930s that are full of robert thompson s own personal furniture made with his own hands and signed with early examples of the carved mouse symbol. It s not made by committee.
Each piece of mouseman furniture is truly unique. It is a classic exercise in branding. May 25 2020 explore beckie campbell s board robert mousey mouseman thompson on pinterest.