Thoughts.
I don't know who made it, but it doesn't look like the Tigrett version from the 50s, the Herman Miller version that's been in production since 1994, or the recent Chinese knockoffs.
With no more provenance than "it belonged to a friend of mine who said he got it around 40 years ago", it would be worth to me only what I'd pay for any beat-up old knockoff coatrack in need of paint: approximately $0.
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