Can you help identify this buffet?

I bought this piece from an antiques dealer on the west coast about 15 years ago. They said is was imported from northern England and was made in the 1890s. I haven't seen anything like it since, so I was hoping someone on here would be able to tell me more about it.

It is made of oak and the base slab is about 2 inches thick.

 

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that's a lovely piece......got any more photo's ?

 

That's a very interesting looking piece, bkeeper!

 

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Circa 1930, art deco style. Definitely English.

 

I think it could be a little later than that, but yes, English and oak.

 

I am calling it a buffet, but is that the proper terminology for this piece, or should I be using a different descriptor? The piece measures 5'w x 2'd x 3'h. More pics below.

 

Sideboard in the UK.

 

Generally buffet in the US but sideboard is not unheard of. I always have trouble dating such English furniture. Am continually surprised by some of the late dates of English art deco style furniture. Nothing like this would have been made in the US in the 40s-50s.

 

Brad, don't forget we were replacing stuff like mad after so much was destroyed, and sometimes sentiment wins out over fashion in terms of style. Looking at furniture ads and magazine articles in the 50s is fascinating: it had been impossible to buy new for so many years. My parents had Georgian furniture bought cheap at auction because you simply could not get anything new. You then got a real dichotomy after the Festival of Britain between the new amazingly funky stuff which people like Robin Day were designing and a kind of traditionalist harking back to happier days. So, you get Gothic Revival in the 50s from people like E Gomme and Olde Charm, mixed in with atomic legged coffee tables and astonishing fabrics.

It's the thing about not being able to detach style from social history, hm?

 

Any idea of what something like this is worth? I like the piece, but I am getting ready to move to Europe, so I'm not sure if the cost to ship/store is worth it or not. Especially if it is not as unique as I think it is.

 

That's a long way to carry it.....& it's not worth $10,000.....but what you can sell it for depends on the market you're in , and how quick a sale you need to make !

 

I think the question might be 'how much is it worth to YOU'!!!!! If it goes in a container.....it's just included with everything else, I would think......but then I don't really know how the shipping goes either.....so how much do you WANT to keep it!!!!

 

Agreed: if you're shipping a container, you may as well put it in. In the UK, it's $150 at the VERY most, probably a fair bit less.

 

Good point, people tend to forget how destructive war can be. It's one reason i think early american southern furniture generally speaking is more expensive than new england stuff, there is much less of it, probably due in large part to war.

 

& That's a good point.....but rarity is not the be all and end all in the market place.
When ever I see early NE American furniture.....folks seem to swoon all over it !
& the prices seem to be lofty...!

 

And ideas on whether or not this piece is rare, or have you folks seen many others like it?