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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 213011, member: 25&quot;]I think it is a late 17th. C to mid or late 18th C chest that has been extensively renovated and altered in the 19th C.&nbsp; This is not unusual. I have no idea of the&nbsp; market where you are but I;d expect it to fetch about the equivalent of $200 - $300 at auction in England, where it probably originally came from. It is also possible that it was faked up in the mid 20th. C. to sell as an original period piece, but I think they would have used an older type of lock.</p><p><br /></p><p>Despite the age it is not very valuable since huge numbers of chests of the period survived, because if not as decorative as that one they are always useful and last forever. I have one myself, a lot plainer but it fills a chest sized space below a window and has been used for years to store the Christmas decorations. It could be that it would fetch more in America, more people, fewer old chests, and possibly more reverence for the reasonably old due to everything being younger over there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well done for saving it. The dead priest would probably thank you too, it is amazing what the ignorant can discard.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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