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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ghopper1924, post: 2203934, member: 5170&quot;]As far as I&#039;m concerned, it&#039;s as valuable as a Victorian chair usually gets, which is to say by itself it might sell for $400-$600 at auction here in the U.S. Midwest. Only Belter and Meeks would sell for more.</p><p><br /></p><p>So my best guess is that this is a walnut armchair, part of a parlor set ca. 1865-75, by John Jelliff of Newark, New Jersey. There is an outside chance it could be Pottier &amp; Stymus, but this feels more like Jelliff. Jelliff&#039;s workshop specialized in using heads such as these in exactly these positions. It was in large part the shop&#039;s trademark, although of course they weren&#039;t the only ones to do it. Imitators are usually pretty obvious because of the lesser (simpler, usually) quality of the work.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was at an auction a couple of years ago where a full Jelliff parlor set, much like this, sold for $8K, which was not a bad price for the Midwest. Decades ago it would have been at last $25K. But we all know that sad story.....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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