Can you give me advice on my Dressing Table and Wardrobe?
It is of solid wood including the back of the Wardrobe and it has what look like bone inlay handles.
Can you give me an aprox date and price?

Items like these where made in the 1930's just before the outbreak of WW11 and continued to be made in the late 1940's and early 1950's. to day I am sorry to say have little value. Charity shops sell items like this for under £30. Auction Houses have stopped taking items like theses because they do not make them enough commission. The Japaneses do buy items like this but they want to own them for next to nothing and they have got to be in perfect condition.

Salvation Army is your best bet.

good luck
John Nolan

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Items like these where made in the 1930's just before the outbreak of WW11 and continued to be made in the late 1940's and early 1950's. to day I am sorry to say have little value. Charity shops sell items like this for under £30. Auction Houses have stopped taking items like theses because they do not make them enough commission. The Japaneses do buy items like this but they want to own them for next to nothing and they have got to be in perfect condition.

Salvation Army is your best bet.

good luck
John Nolan

Many thanks

It certainly isn't solid wood. The outside of the wardrobe doors is walnut, the inside is sapele, so it's veneer.

By the by, I do wish antiquesman would stop advising people to paint their furniture. Anybody who does that should be locked up.

Originally Posted by RCG123

It certainly isn't solid wood. The outside of the wardrobe doors is walnut, the inside is sapele, so it's veneer.

By the by, I do wish antiquesman would stop advising people to paint their furniture. Anybody who does that should be locked up.

painting furniture is a way of preserving items that are not old enough to be of interest today, other wise they would end up on the bonfire.

In the past old furniture in the 18th century was all painted.
This happened again in the 19th century

Even the likes of Buckingham Palace have painted pieces of furniture. They get given the impressive name Chinoiserie.

I hate painted furniture my self but it is better to paint a piece than through it out or let get burned. Plus the fact by giving it another life you save the forests.

I am in the antique business because I love antiques.
I have spent the last 30 years of my 50 years life in antiques as a preserver and conservationist.

If painting ... preserves an item..... Then we must admire that person.

Ikea ............... say no more