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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;verybrad, post: 245041, member: 37&quot;]Did you check for saw marks on the seat bottom?&nbsp; If straight saw marks, the plank seat would probably date before 1870.&nbsp;&nbsp; Of course an old piece of wood could have been used for this.&nbsp; Likely individual built so quirky details like this are a distinct possibility.&nbsp; Any way you look at it, this has some age and a lot of charm.&nbsp; I would be inclined to ask a little more and come down if necessary. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know where you are but what I can get here need not be your benchmark.&nbsp;&nbsp; Truth be known, this would not sell on our CL for decent money at all.&nbsp; Nothing but bottom feeders there.&nbsp; It would need a proper retail setting to get any attention at all here and might languish anyway. </p><p><br /></p><p>True story:</p><p>Dealer friend of mine here had a bent willow smoking stand with the top having a log cabin&nbsp; that was a cigarette box that you removed the roof to open,&nbsp; A wishing well was for matches and a pond for the ashtray.&nbsp; A gravel path served as striker.&nbsp; Good age, good condition, painted up nicely, and very folk artsy.&nbsp;&nbsp; He started it at $235.00.&nbsp; A year later he was down to $99.00 and it still didn&#039;t sell.&nbsp; It was at $45.00 and I was thinking about buying it. However, if he couldn&#039;t sell it, how could I? I thought about it for ebay but decided I didn&#039;t want to mess with shipping.&nbsp; He finally sold it to another dealer for $25.00 just to get some money back out of it.&nbsp; It was the kind of thing I could have seen at over $500.00 in a folk art focused big city show, yet it languished here for well over a year without any interest.&nbsp; Market is everything.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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