A few years ago this Seymour mahogany card table showed up at an Antique’s Road Show. At the time they appraised it at between $200,000 and $250,000. The owner was very pleased. Recently she decided to take it to auction at Sotheby’s. Watch this quick one minute video clip to see what it brought.
The Seymour Card Table Goes to Auction | Bonus Footage | Secaucus, NJ | Antiques Roadshow | PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/video/BF_199708A13.html
I’m sure she’s even happier now!
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Wow! Cool, thanks for sharin’. We watch this show often and I’ve never seen if the auction part ever really comes true.
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It is cool to see what something actually sells for.
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It’s more like hide your furniture in a dark closet for 200 years and never touch it. Or at least that’s what Bob Flexner thinks:http://www.masterpiecefurniture.com/designnotes/flexner/antiquesroadshow.html
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Thanks for the link Jonathan. That’s quite a treatise that Flexner put together there.
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