Love the Marhamchurch site.
Yeah, THE place to purchase early english oak, no doubt! Particularly at his year end sale event where much of his stock is sold off at cost! Where are our limey people? would have thought they would have posted by now.
English items are difficult to date because they tended to use the same methods for longer periods than here in the US !!
True, up to a point. To an experienced english early oak person, you can pretty much tell what part of GB the piece came from and the period it was made by the carving patterns. Take Thomas Dennis as an example who apprenticed in england, his carving in america is VERY similar to the shop in england where he learned the trade.
Value
Generally speaking, early english pieces do not have anywhere near the value that similar pieces that are american do. This is most likely do to the rarity of early american pieces, there just were not that many of us here in the early years compared to GB and so the supply of early objects is MUCH smaller.
I would guess $500 or so for this box in today's market. I do not think the feet are that big a deal even if not original, they could easily be removed. Additionally, it is not unusual for pieces that are hundreds of years old to have repairs/alterations to their original form, matter of fact, quite normal.
