The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #114023   Message #2430103
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
03-Sep-08 - 03:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: Antique furniture styles/auctions
Subject: RE: BS: Antique furniture styles/auctions
SRS is right, it is that "Empire" style of the late 19th and early 20th c. Tons were sold.

I have a chest of that type in the basement in which my wife stored fabrics that she insists should be kept for the kids (and will be the first stuff they pack off to goodwill shops). I think I paid $50 some 50 years ago, but it would bring about $500 locally now. Not because it is getting to be about 100 years old, just normal inflation!

Stickney, I believe, acquired Widdicomb a few years back.