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Antique Questions Forum / Eastlake Chair and Pressback Rocker

« on: September 07, 2019, 02:01:16 pm »

I decided to part with these items that have been in the house for what seems like a LOOOONG time. I put them out last weekend for my Labor Day yard sale (last photo). I still have them. Mayhaps I was asking too much for a lawn sale venue, but my feeling is that the intrinsic value of something is the same whether at an antiques shop or at a garage sale. My price on the Eastlake chair was $100 (an considering I had to pay $125 to have it re-upholstered, I am selling at a loss), and $40 on the rocker. Any opinions?

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Any ideas what this is?

« on: August 24, 2019, 08:49:10 am »

I weighted on a postal scale and all together weigh just under one ounce.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Any ideas what this is?

« on: August 20, 2019, 01:30:30 pm »

I weighted them all at once and together they just about weigh one ounce (a little less) and they are definitely metal (read OP).

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Any ideas what this is?

« on: August 20, 2019, 01:26:45 pm »

Can you please tell us if the crown and S. S. is only on the outside of the tube or is it on the inside as well?

The design goes through to the inside, but the S.S. is reversed.

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Antique Questions Forum / Any ideas what this is?

« on: August 15, 2019, 10:50:25 am »

I have no idea what this is (and I have 6 of them), or how old, although I've had them for decades. Probably something my parents brought home in a box lot from an auction and I fished them out. They are made from very light non-magnetic metal, probably aluminum and are all 2" long and 5/8" in diameter and hollow, so none fits inside any other. One end is open and the other has the initials S.S. under a crown. I'd like to know what they are.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Notgeld Notes and Stamps

« on: August 02, 2019, 12:06:14 pm »

Difficult to find the exact item on eBay, then the prices are all over the place. I do not rely on eBay as a price guide.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Notgeld Notes and Stamps

« on: July 30, 2019, 02:25:15 pm »

More pics

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Antique Questions Forum / Notgeld Notes and Stamps

« on: July 30, 2019, 02:21:55 pm »

There was a gallon storage bag on the giveaway table at the senior center of what looked like postage stamps, so I though I take it and look through it. It took me last weekend to sort through the bag. Most of the stamps I discarded (they were cancelled Liberty Bells and NFP stamps). I did find some more unusual ones, a block of "Officially Sealed" stickers, some Austrian Notgeld notes from 1920 and some first day cancellation envelopes . Any comments appreciated.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Stoneware Butter Churn

« on: July 30, 2019, 02:12:59 pm »

mart - In your area they probably want you to give it to them !!

That may be true the way people that stop at my estate sale the last few years display attitude. Nobody is selling antiques going by how many "antique" and collectible stores around here have gone belly-up the last 4 years. There are a lot of empty shops where they once were. If dealers aren't selling, that means no one is buying, and the ones still trying to make a go of it don't offer much. The best offer I had on a set of caned-seat chairs was $5 (not each - for the set of 6).

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Antique Questions Forum / Stoneware Butter Churn

« on: July 28, 2019, 10:30:22 am »

A five gallon with wooden dasher and lid. The dasher is 3 feet 9 inches long. No marks other than the blue 5. No cracks or chips. Market value?

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Antique Drop-Leaf Gate-Leg Table

« on: September 06, 2018, 10:54:22 am »

The more I look at the photos, the more I get a feeling that the legs and the top were not originally together. It looks like someone cobbled together an antique-looking top and attached it to a more modern bottom since they look like two different woods and styles to me (a darker, rough-looking top with those lighter-colored, lathed legs). Could that be possible?

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Antique Drop-Leaf Gate-Leg Table

« on: September 05, 2018, 03:44:44 pm »

The bolts don't even go through to the underside.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Antique Drop-Leaf Gate-Leg Table

« on: September 05, 2018, 12:46:09 pm »

More pics - close up of one of the metal pieces, I stood on a chair to get a better angle to show both sides with the metal piece (the fuzzy dots aren't on the table - they may be dust floaters. I probably kicked up quite a few when I moved the table) and laid on the floor to take a pic of the underside of where the metal is. BTW - when I was under the table, there was a very faded paper sticker with $150 on it. I don't know if that's what my parents paid for it back in the 1970's, but in today's money, that would be about $650.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Antique Drop-Leaf Gate-Leg Table

« on: September 04, 2018, 10:00:49 am »

It's pretty heavy, but not impossible for an old lady to move by "walking" it (lifting one side and moving it forward, then going to the other side and doing the same, alternating sides). I don't think I could just left it off the floor by myself, but a couple of strong fellas probably wouldn't have any trouble.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Antique Drop-Leaf Gate-Leg Table

« on: September 03, 2018, 02:56:32 pm »

It's my considered opinion that that metal brace is not a repair since there is one on the other side, too. Maybe it isn't noticeable in the photo.