Does anyone know anything about this further or how much this furniture may be worth? I have a dining set that I recieved from my mom when I got married. She was going to throw it out, but I always liked it and saw/still see it's potential. I used to play "cave woman" under this furniture. So it has sentimental value to me. Anyhow, one day I looked under the chairs and saw some tags stapled to the bottom. There are three and here' some of the info on it one of the tags:
ONT Reg. 6309438
Singer Furniture Division
P.O. Box 511
Lenoir, N. Carolina 28645
11-75 Side Chair
Color: Cove and Minton Earth
(There is more, but I don't want to remove the staples and destroy the info.)
Anyhow, I've tried to reseach the company and get no hx. except for the singer sewing machines. What I did find at a website is:
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http://www.furnituremagazine.com/default.cfm?page=/ViewManufacturers&Letter=k&manufdroplist=yes)
KENT-COFFEY
Lenoir, NC
In its day, Kent-Coffee was a very popular brand of furniture. It was reasonably well-made, sold in stores all over the East Coast and was priced so the average consumer could afford it.
Kent-Coffey was a furniture company in Lenoir, NC owned by Harold Coffey, a leading influence driving the North Carolina furniture industry in the early 1900's.
Through the 60's Kent-Coffey made promotionally priced, but decent quality furniture. For unknown reasons, they were sold to the Singer Furniture Company, a subsidiary of the Singer sewing machine fame. Singer should have stuck with sewing machines because around 1997 the furniture division went bankrupt. In 2001, Kent-Coffey was named as co-defendant in a lawsuit brought by a former Singer employee suing over asbestos related illness.
Thanks for your insight!
-Lissette
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