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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: typetalkjane@aol.com on December 10, 2012, 02:55:36 PM
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We have a sideboard, we have had this since 1983, we bought it from someone moving from a house to a flat, we are sure the history is East End of London but nothing definate please identify
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This does,nt look like a sideboard..it looks like a dressing table without the mirror...can you give us a pic of the rear...but if it is a sideboard..is that box in the middle for cutlery...date wise..it looks like 1930,s/40,s
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This does,nt look like a sideboard..it looks like a dressing table without the mirror...can you give us a pic of the rear...but if it is a sideboard..is that box in the middle for cutlery...date wise..it looks like 1930,s/40,s
Its a sideboard, the top drawer is a cutlery drawer, the box on the top is a monolopy set that we have there, there is a dining room table too. there are no holes at the rear where anything has been attached. Any idea roughly how much it would be worth please
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I agree on the date Wullie gave !! He would know more what value it would have in the UK !! Are the pulls missing from the side compartments ??
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Wull's right on the date. Looks like late Deco made of mahogany very stylish!
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i,ve seen similar ones to this at Taylors Auction house...the sides..were made of a mahogany veneered plywood that..have a spring loaded catch..whereby with a deft little push the side door opened..value wise...as a complete set..e.g dining room suite...comprising of sideboard,dining table & chairs...will be in the region of £100/150..depending on cond....can you check if there is a makers name on it...Lebus...was a popular make...Stag..was another...
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Thanks everyone for your replys and help
It had no pulls to begin with
Lebus was a posibility I remember them
It is definately not plywood definately solid wood
Not heard of Stag
Any more ideas please
Thanks
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could you give us a pic of the side opened...mahogany has a fibrous grain..but to have the door curved..like it is would put a lot of stress..on it..which make,s me believe that its core is ply with a mahogany veneer..to open the side,s do you just give it a little push..the hinges should be of the soft close type..we need more pics..thats for sure...is the cutlery drawer lined with a velvet type material..and it should be sectioned....
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Would sure surprise me if those doors were solid !!
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Will take some more pictures later, the doors are a lock and key and the cutlery drawer is lined with green felt
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Gorgeous piece of Art Deco! Please post a picture of the side of the drawer construction. Look for any stamped or marked names in drawers/back of drawers, inside. Thanks!
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Well,..i,ll have to say...i,m pleasantly surprised with this construction...espe cially the doors...but it does,nt change what i think its worth...i visit here once a month..Taylors Auction House...Montrose... and you,d be shocked at what pieces like this are fetching....suffice to say...a lot of similar pieces..go up my lum.....much to the annoyance of ...KC....but i have to keep me and Avril warm..and this is a cheap way of doing it....
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Thanks for help, probably put it on ebay and go from there ...
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Well if you do..please be sure to post the link...I.d really love to be wrong about my evaluation....
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will do but wont be until the new year, thanks for all your help, got the table to match it, but it such a good table we dont want to sell dont think we find anything so sturdy and its had shaped custom mats on it the whole time
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Try as you may....you haven't annoyed me yet Wullie! I just guess it's cheaper to get furniture to burn than firewood in your neck of the woods!?!?!?
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Try as you may....you haven't annoyed me yet Wullie! I just guess it's cheaper to get furniture to burn than firewood in your neck of the woods!?!?!?
I don,t try to annoy you KC...I just take it as it comes..but I value your comments..and I too get a laugh when reading yours, ..You are correct about the cost of seasoned Hardwood logs...they can cost anything between $120...and $175...for a Potato Box full...which in lbs...is around 2000lbs...just under a ton..whereas i can get a high sided van load of furniture..which is made up of mostly 30,s/40,s heavy.furniture..oa k tables, beach, elm,..ash..etc...for $50...and i,ll get around a couple of months burning....
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How big is a potato box ?? In feet and inches ??
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The box size is 72in long x 48in wide x 38in high...its a 1.5ton capacity...for taters.but when its full of split logs,the weight is around 2000lb
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Wow! That is interesting. So, in other words, you are slowly raising the values of furniture...because it will end up being scarce after so much of it is burned?!? :)
How in the heck did you figure this out? Is this a normal thing?
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Hi KC,That thought never crossed my mind...It was the economics of it, that...took me in this direction..
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Bigwull is just "repurposing" vintage furniture. ;D ;D
He is doing his part to save humanity from the perils of Global Warming by using a "renewable" energy source instead of burning fossil fuels.
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Putting it that way I suppose I am...do you think I should maybe apply for membership to the Green Lobby....now that i,m doing my bit to "Save the Planet"..... ;D
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As a sidenote to Bigwull's re-purposing plan, I'll add a little history of my own. My Mother was born and raised in a sod house down on Rabbit Creek out on the Western Plains. She attended "Lone Tree" school, so named because it was near the only tree within miles.
Much like Scotland, the cost of conventional heating / cooking fuel was beyond the reach of the family, so an alternative had to be found. That fuel source was the easily obtained "cow chip (pie)". Proper drying was the secret, so one of my Mother's jobs as a girl was to walk the prairie during the Summer with a stick, turning over the chips so they would be evenly baked in the sun.
After being dried, they were gathered up in gunny (potato) sacks, and stored for future use. Kinda gives a new meaning to: "picking up a bag of chips". :P
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Rauville, this brings back memories....My grandmother was raised in a house much the same. The roof was dried wood with all sorts of things stuffed in it. My great grandparents had to go for a tax audit and job and were gone for 3 weeks (left 7 kids ages 7 to 14). Her 9 year old twin brothers somehow started a fire in the loft. They lived for over 6 months without a roof!
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This brings a whole new meaning to cow shit..or pies in the US...or Pat,s in the UK.& Oz..... ;D ;D
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Sounds like a house my parents lived in once !! Said they could look down at the floor and count the chickens !! Rent was $2.00 a month !!
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AAAH, the good ole days, ...... 1917 Clay County, WV.
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Here in The Highlands of Scotland it was a But & Ben..the family lived in one half..and the twa coos an couple o. sheep an chickens..lived in the other half...if they were a wee bit better aff..they had a one up one doon..the coos were in the doon bit..and they were in the up...an the heat that came aff the coos..rose up tae heat the up half...