Antique sideboard? Make / value

Does anyone have any ideas about this sideboard. we want to sell it but there are no details about the name on it. we just know it was handmade in Horbury.

Thanks

 

As with all these furniture questions, some information about where they are would help. I doubt if anyone has any idea where Horbury is, and it would probably help to know how you know it was made there since that might help with when it was made.

 

Horbury is near Wakefield in West Yorkshire. this piece was left by previous owners in a house bought about 30 years ago in Huddersfield and passed onto me about 8 years ago after another house move. the previous owners said it had been made in Horbury but that is the only information I have.

 

I doubt if it was made in the mid forties, the wood would have not been available for anything but essential uses such as building and utility furniture.

Possibly a bit later when things began to recover from wartime conditions.

It looks to be a good quality thing, I'd buy something like that if I needed one, the trouble with the market is that tastes change, and folk who'd like it mostly have one already.

There are still small craftsmen making individual pieces of furniture to high standards, as there must have been when this was made. We bought a really nice oak table from a craftsman in Pembrokeshire when we got lost and wounnd up outside his shop. And look at the price of Mouseman pieces being made today.

I have never done anything with Gumtree but it might be worth a try. It might be an idea to investigate the alleged Horbury maker, if you can find some details (local history society, maybe) the cachet of it being an individual craftsman made piece might give it some clout in the market. Provenance is always helpful.

 

Based on everything I can see, I would think this 19th century if American. Why do you and Davey think it to be so much later? Not trying to be argumentative but would like to learn more about English furniture. There was nothing like this being made in the US that late. This would have been way out of fashion.

 

The OP suggested it might not have been a commercial piece, where the influence of current style is most evident. In Britain there have always been folk who'd hanker for a more 'traditional' style and makers to cater to them. Usually at much higher prices than the factory made stuff. If the style was current when bought, there would be no need to go to a small maker. Some would buy older pieces, some have a bit of a thing against secondhand stuff.

If I was furnishing a house with no regard to cost, I'd commision my own pieces too. They would not look at all 21st. Century.

 

Thanks for your replies everyone.