Eastlake Chair and Pressback Rocker

[debodun]

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?

[ghopper1924]

We all know the antique market has basically collapsed, and sadly antique chairs are at the forefront. Your chairs are beautiful, but people just aren't buying (except people like us, ha ha).

In my part of the U.S. midwest your chair would sell for about $30. Rockers are pretty much DOA, so maybe $10-$15, and even then you'd be getting lucky.

Wish there was better news!

[mart]

You paid $125. for 30 minutes with a staple gun and a yard of fabric ??  I am moving where you are !!
Why didn`t you do it??  Might have cost $20. !!

[KC]

Mart, I agree with you on the rocker pricing for this area.  However, the Eastlake chair would have sold around $120 - $150 in the DFW area easily.

[mart]

KC,, I didn`t give a price for the chairs,, I was talking about the $125. to do the chair upholstery !! 

[jacon4]

Single chairs are a tough sell for obvious reasons (most want sets of chairs, 4,6, etc), rockers you have to pay someone to haul off, UNLESS of course, an outstanding example or important historical value, like Thomas Jefferson once owned it or some such.

[KC]

Sorry Mart.  My jetlag brain transposed the posts.  ghopper1924 posted a $30 value on the chair in the midwest.

[mart]

Figured you were still a bit under the Texas airways weather !!  You will catch up on your rest eventually !!