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Heavy Wooden Dresser
« on: March 07, 2013, 10:10:03 am »
A local woman has been asking me to sell her this dresser for quite some time. It's dark wood - maybe walnut or mahogany. The drawers part is 45" long, 33" tall and 19.5" deep. The mirror is 34.5" wide and 32.5" tall. What would be a reasonable price for it?

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Re: Heavy Wooden Dresser
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2013, 10:13:23 am »
A mahogany dresser ca. 1945, value would be about $150-$250 depending on where and how it's being sold.
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Re: Heavy Wooden Dresser
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2013, 10:25:17 am »
Thanks for the quick reply.

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Re: Heavy Wooden Dresser
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2013, 01:08:09 pm »
Yep !!  Same as my mother had from early 50`s !!  Yours looks a shade earlier than hers !!

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Re: Heavy Wooden Dresser
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2013, 03:05:51 pm »
These Sheraton Style dressers from the 40s and 50s are very common where I live and generally bring around 75.00 realistically. If they are a real quality piece from a fine furniture maker, they will bring considerably more.
This one looks fairly typical. It is a good thing that the top was protected from all those bottles. The glass adds a little value too.
« Last Edit: March 07, 2013, 03:09:25 pm by frogpatch »

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Re: Heavy Wooden Dresser
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2013, 03:31:49 pm »
Yeah,  I don't see anything exceptional about this dresser. I might have to revise my estimate down to $100 or so.
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Re: Heavy Wooden Dresser
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2013, 04:07:19 pm »
In that area is the same as it would bring here !!

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Re: Heavy Wooden Dresser
« Reply #7 on: March 07, 2013, 05:24:59 pm »
here in the UK...to be more precise..in Scotland..it might fetch...£40/£50...
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Re: Heavy Wooden Dresser
« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2013, 02:08:38 pm »
Big Note here! It also depends on what it looks like UNDER all the collections on top.  Most ended up with stains from perfumes, etc.

In my neck-of-the-woods  $75 - $125 in good to great shape!
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Re: Heavy Wooden Dresser
« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2013, 07:49:24 am »
Hard to believe this nice dresser is worth so little these days. I think my parents paid $200 for it at the auction in 1976. That would be over $800 in today's money.

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Re: Heavy Wooden Dresser
« Reply #10 on: March 09, 2013, 09:06:32 am »
My parents had what could have been the matching pieces, bought around 1942. In '66 they did a 'trade' at a furniture store......the four poster bed from the set in exchange for a 'three room grouping' for my sister's apartment. When my mother passed away about 15 years ago I sold the vanity with mirror and stool, five drawer man's dresser and the bedside table, in near mint condition, to a neighbor for $250 (they refinished a perfectly good set :P ). Sad to think how the values of 'real' furniture has so diminished.

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Re: Heavy Wooden Dresser
« Reply #11 on: March 09, 2013, 09:56:41 am »
There was so much of the Colonial revival "Duncan Phyfe/Sheraton" furniture made in the 1940s and 50s that it still floods the market, thus lowering its value. 

Too bad, because like you say, this is "real" furniture, made of solid wood (often mahogany) with dovetail drawer construction. Now it's lost value to the point that it's barely worth messing with.

I wonder what will happen when the "retro" 1960s-70s bubble bursts, and that furniture is seen for the discardable, souless, mass-produced stuff that it (generally) is. Maybe the Phyfe/Sheraton revival pieces will get back some of their value, since they are in fact very well made pieces.

 
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Re: Heavy Wooden Dresser
« Reply #12 on: March 09, 2013, 10:49:05 am »
I agree it is so sad.  However, people like Wullie (who burn loads of furniture for heating) will eventually help the values of the furniture left over...to go up!  :)
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Re: Heavy Wooden Dresser
« Reply #13 on: March 09, 2013, 11:10:55 am »
I,m doing my bit... ;D
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