Gerald Crawford is regularly named among the best creators of miniature furniture, but it’s proving quite hard to find out biographical details about him. I presume he’s American, as he had a long-running collaboration with the Winterthur Museum in Delaware, creating stunning miniature versions of their Early American furniture. The pinnacle of his work for them, according to one note I found online, was a fully working 1/12 scale spinet, offered by Winterthur in their 1990-91 catalogue for $8,000.
Sadly we are not in that kind of market just yet – and he is so highly regarded that his pieces are very expensive – but we have managed to make a start on our Crawford collection and hope to add a few more pieces as time goes by. As he retired from miniature-making in the early ’90s (where does one go after building a fully functioning miniature spinet, after all?), I suspect he may have died, but if anyone can provide further info of any kind, I’d be really interested to learn more.
Dressing Table Mirror
Elegant swinging mirror with drawer in the base by distinguished craftsman Gerald Crawford (2022.130)
Quartermaine Hall 