Unusual form pie safe with lantern-style tins and striking, tomato red paint, circa 1840 Of all the pie safes that I have owned in thirty years of buying paint-decorated furniture, this is my personal favorite. I had the great privilege to have owned and sold it sixteen years ago to a dear friend and client, Larry Dumont, a passionate collector with exquisite taste in art, antiques, and design. Made sometime between 1830 and 1850, this is an early safe with an atypical form with an architectural sensibility. The latter of these traits is largely derived from its repeating lantern-style tins that almost have the feel of windows or doorways. At the top of each "lantern” adornment is what appears to be a drooping bow, which lends a bit of flare to the otherwise geometric structure. The form i