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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Please Help ID Old Desk

« on: January 11, 2012, 04:41:36 pm »

Thanks everybody!!!!

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Please Help ID Old Desk

« on: January 10, 2012, 10:44:31 pm »

more pics

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Please Help ID Old Desk

« on: January 10, 2012, 10:22:45 pm »

more pics...

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Please Help ID Old Desk

« on: January 10, 2012, 10:19:36 pm »

That is really unusual. Can you tell if the drawer may have had a single wood knob at one time, by a filled in hole The Chippendale style pulls do not look right for such a simple almost Shaker like design. Also can we see the drawer side and the back on the piece. It appears to be pine and really not that old but it is hard to tell in the picture.

Thanks for the quick reply. Thanks for requesting more photos! I found some things.
There's a "Made by Townshend in Vermont paper label inside the drawer as well as a "19" stamped into the back of the piece.


It doesn't appear to have any "repairs" on the inside of the drawer.



Thanks again!!

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Antique Questions Forum / Please Help ID Old Desk

« on: January 10, 2012, 07:34:21 pm »

HI !

Any ideas on what I have here and what it might be worth? I would greatly appreciate it.  Also, the best way to sell it within a month or twos time (ebay or craigslist or antique consignment shop etc)?

My mom called it a captains desk or a ships desk or something like that.

http://s222.photobucket.com/albums/dd60/sl8eddy/desk/

40 1/2" tall
18 1/4" deep
34" wide.


I'm in Southern California.

Thank you very much!!!