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Antique Chair: Selling Your Antique Table And Chair

What makes a certain piece of furniture an antique? If your table and chair have been with your family since your great great grandparents' time, would they qualify as antiques? Some auction houses would say that to make a certain furniture piece an antique, it would have to have been in existence for at least fifty years.

However, some argue that fifty is too short a period to give a chair a high antique equivalent value, insisting, then, that an antique should be at least a hundred years old. The American government agrees with the latter – for an item to be an antique, it should have been around for a century.

Is the table and chair your family owns an antique, then? The answer should be simple. IF you know your chair's age, that is. If you don't, then you need assistance from the professionals, who will then try to determine if the wooden chair that has been passed along for years now within the family makes the cut.

It would help if your table and chair have some sort of history attached to them. Personal family anecdotes will not make it more valuable in the market, though, unless you're a descendant of Marie Antoinette and she has parked her behind on that particular piece of furniture at some point during her reign. But if your table or chair have been sat on by your great great great grandfather who told the best of chicken jokes, auction buyers might not find much value in them(but your family will!).

If you're planning to sell your furniture you need to have it appraised before you put it out in the market. Simply saying it's an antique will not give it the highest value. If your chair or table has original carvings and is made of first class hard wood, you may be able to fetch an attractive sum.

It should be noted at this point that simply saying that a chair is a hundred years old does not necessarily make it more valuable than the table or chair Nelson Mandela used when he was imprisoned. Aside from age, a table or chair's value is also determined by its use, or, in this case, its former user.

When your furniture is appraised, the key factors that will be considered are: age, look or design, and history. The older your chair, the higher the price; the more intricate and unique the carvings, the rate goes much higher; and when a famous person has once owned it or used it for a long time, its value skyrockets.

Thus, when you are considering getting paid for the antique table and chair you have in your living room, you have to be mindful of its history (which will be fact-checked, so don't get any nasty ideas!).

In sum, the value of your antique table and chair will depend on the abovementioned factors. You can still get a considerable amount just because it's old. Age has its own perks in the world of furniture. And if your antique table or chair each has a story to tell, one that would make the annals of time, then all the better for you. If this is so, would you really want to sell them?

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