Any Furniture Experts..

[maxest]

As I am not one, but when looking around a family friends property today, he's a retired joiner/cabinet maker, my dad took a shining to this, which the cabinet maker found in a skip, repaired and restored, not my cup of tea; but wouldn't mind knowing a little more about it; approx age, origin, and perhaps an idea on value; as i'd like to buy it for my dads birthday






Thanks In advance

[yellowtang]

It's a hall chair, oak with I think satinwood and walnut inlay ( hard to be certain as I'm looking on my phone ). Looks Flemish and date wise it's late 19th century.

Not terribly fashionable so limited value of something like £150 I reckon, more in dealers showroom though.

[AdamIndy]

yellowtang said:

It's a hall chair, oak with I think satinwood and walnut inlay ( hard to be certain as I'm looking on my phone ). Looks Flemish and date wise it's late 19th century.

Not terribly fashionable so limited value of something like £150 I reckon, more in dealers showroom though.

As an auctioneer, I would say this valuation/description is about right. In our saleroom I would expect £120-£150. Although it looks a lot more expensive.

It's unusual and would look great in the right home. It's really is amazing what people lob in the skip!

[maxest]

Thanks for that, he wanted £250 for it, I think that was more to cover his time; story was he brought it into work on a fri afternoon out of a skip, lads in his shop told him to put it back where he'd found it; so he worked all through the weekend ready for them coming back in on the Monday morning.. wish I'd seen their faces