Hello I picked up a table and four chairs today that match the chairs in the picture below by Woodard. My question is if mine are authentic or not they have a variation that I have not seen before they are the side chairs like picture but they have these little metal arm rests. Not the arm chairs that you normally see but the side chairs with separate metal armrest. Hope they are Woodard as I think I paid too much to even if they are.
I don't know how much
you paid, but I just bought 4 like the ones in your picture for $264 USD plus $95 USD shipping. So that's 90 bucks each. I also have two of the arm chairs (the full mesh arms, not the open arms)that I paid 120 or 125 apiece, can't remember exactly. What did you pay for yours?
BTW, mine were in great vintage condition. Took 'em right out of the shipping cartons and plopped 'em on the deck.
Oh Good
Thank you very much I bought them for $320.00 4 chairs and one table. Highly doubt table goes with the chairs but they must have just been redone because they are 100% perfect except for a small scratch I made on the one armrest bringing them home. They were purchased at a field auction where most things sell for one or two dollars and a lady with half her teeth missing is who bid against me I doubt she had any idea what they were.
Beware! The toothless deshel...
Beware! The toothless deshelved old lady may infact be an eBay flipper with full awareness of MCM. Maybe even an antique dealer, or a relative is. Since the bid went up to $320, I suspect the above.
At a live auction, I stopped bidding on an Orrefors vase, thinking the elderly lady was really into glass more than I. When I congratulated her winning on a fine vase, she thanked me adding that the husband and her will be selling it on eBay. My respect for her dissipated. Now, I'm merciless.
Another case in point, a redneck looking tough guy wearing a NASCAR hat, atrociously ugly sunglasses and driving a muscled up Ford F150....snagged a beat-up McCobb bedroom set at a thrift store. Even the clueless looking thrift manager disguising his knowledge and backroom dealings. One lives in an upscale neighborhood, home full of Antiques (hmmmmm). There's the innocent looking Evangelical missionary with a van full of vintage furniture, and an empty open pit trailer beckoning for more.
None of the above are wrong. For deep collectors like ourselves...it can be quite aggervating! The examples above are a few of my experiences. Collectively, the experiences taught me much about people, money, motives, honesty and trust. Appearances can be VERY deceptive!
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