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Message:: [QUOTE="Jeff Drum, post: 4407396, member: 6444"]Absolutely. Most people were happy with furniture from Sears or equivalent retailers in the MCM time - the real imported Danish stuff was in specialty shops and cost more. Even those who wanted the real Danish stuff often made compromises. My Dad was an architect who lived and breathed MCM style, but he had a family to support and our house was furnished with MCM furniture but it was mostly reproductions because that was what he could afford. It is even worse with antiques than it is with MCM pieces, because MCM pieces are usually in reasonable condition after only 70 years of use/storage. In contrast, period antiques after 270 years tend to look pretty beat up. I have more than a dozen 18th/19th century American Windsor chairs that I didn't pay more than $50 for - usually free or $20. And my best two pieces of period Boston Queen Anne furniture (a chair and a tea table both from 1750) were both FREE because they were in original/old finish and looked like hell. Of course in the antique world original/old finish on a period piece is a bonus, but it doesn't look it to the average homeowner. Exactly my point. These pieces are definitely out there, even in the highly desired MCM market. I wish I was close enough to Wright's auction to consign stuff there. MCM stuff does pretty well here at retail, but Skinner and the other local auction houses do poorly with MCM.[/QUOTE]