Featured Can anyone help me put a name to this wash stand?

So I talked with my dad about it, and he confirmed that it is indeed British and that it was bought by a 70 year old man as a wedding present for his wife, and it was an antique when he bought it. The wheels do not roll anymore, but I did find out that the black marble top is original and that there was indeed something fastened to the top of it, so I think we are on the right track with the British server idea.

 

@verybrad
I've always thought these were English wash stands, not servers


https://www.google.com/search?q=Eng...9JTQAhVnz1QKHSCBAdQQ_AUICSgC&biw=1293&bih=840

 

Along with a matching pitcher and bowl right?

 

on hard marble....so it cleans up more easily..

 

You may be right. I am coming from a Midwest American perspective. Have seen these marketed as servers here but they may be, indeed, considered a washstand across the pond. They are larger than a washstand by our standards. What say our British members?

 

Not that I'm British, but have always known similar pieces as washstands...

~Cheryl

 

I know it as a washstand, too

 

Thanks Cluttered, I've always called those a washstand too.

I think setting a price is something that can only be done by the owner. Only the owner knows where he lives, what his market is, what the competition is, selling options available to him, etc.

I've always thought the prices to be according to location location location!

Here is one example of what I mean: Circa 1990 heyday of antique stores selling furniture in New Orleans, I wanted to buy the Art Nouveau washstand in the link for the whopping price of $350 but I'd just purchased the matching armoire and I couldn't afford it!

Here is the beautiful washstand:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Eng...UICSgC&biw=1293&bih=840#imgrc=LP2MeHryELHLxM:

 

I would have a much easier time to set a price on jewelry, glass, artwork, really almost anything other than furniture.

There are so many variables pertaining to furniture. A consideration has always been how much space will it take to store it.

 

Hi Antidiem,
I remember going to New Orleans in the 70s and buying 10 large marble busts and stands for 125 dollars a set. Renting a truck and driving back to NYC where I sold them for 750 each except one. That one I kept until 1980 and sold at auction for 3000 dollars. Those were the days.
greg

 

WOW! Greg! What a nice find!

 

Hi Antidiem,
In the 70s New Orleans was a gold mine in Victorian antiques. No one wanted them then. There was so much furniture it was hard to choose. A friend of mine bought 22 pieces of Belter furniture and I think it cost him 5 grand. I know that when he sold them back in NY he got almost 62 grand. We decided to go back a few months later but I got remarried and his wife took him to the cleaners. About 1976 the prices of Victorian stuff started to take off and everyone and his brother went South to find stuff. God, I really really miss my bust. She was lovely, pure white except for a light grey streak on her shoulder. Her stand was green marble with white and gray streaks. Altogether she was 6 ft tall.
greg

 

She sounds like she was a beautiful bust and pedistal, Greg. You are right about the New Orleans furniture gold mine of the 1970s. I didn't have much extra money for furniture purchases back in the 1970s. As a college student, most of the furniture I had was someone's discard! I was able to buy little McCoy and Shawnee pottery planters, mixing bowls, china and an odd piece of depression glass here and there. The 1970s was when I held my first garage sale!

The entire time I've collected antiques (early-1980s on), the market has been a dismal place to sell furniture. As a port city, New Orleans gets a glut of old stuff which sells inexpensively.

 

Most definitely an antique washstand. I've seen at least two or three of these walk into my local charity shop in the past five or six years. They seem to be very popular.

As for a name, I'd suggest Professor Scrubblysuds.