Linda C says WOW!!!!
Value?? Bottom $600....up to $1500.....depending on condition and buyer.

That's a beauty!

Does she have the missing handle from the right side drawer?

Nice, probably walnut and burled walnut veneer.

And it's a nice small one, fit in apartments and smaller places.

Eastlake is not selling on the west coast of BC, at all, MCM is the only thing with value right now. With a candle burn on the front & a missing handle, you would be lucky to get $200. Condition & region is paramount. Good luck! :)

What mfrog said, same goes for Empire which sits in back room of shops and collects dust.

I have been collecting "stuff" long enough to know that fads come and go.
I have a round oak table that I bought for $12 in about 1965. Then everyone wanted one and you would pay about $150 for a simple table like mine and upward of $250 for a fancy one with claw feet. I suspect my table is today worth about $50.

Oh that is a charming piece. Even with the damage it's still gorgeous. Lucky you!

I don't enjoy being the one to rain on the parade, but to my eye it doesn't "read right". What size is it... how wide and how tall?

I simply can't convince myself that it's much more than 36" wide, and generally speaking a buffet, even a small buffet, is going to be not much less than 48" wide.

Although a "small one", this is what I think of as a "real" Eastlake buffet...

It's currently on eBay, a small 43-1/4" wide x 81" tall (asking $1400, since you're wondering). To my eye it's simply a matter of the proportion; I like the height.

I really have no right to call that one "real" simply because I like it...

Here's one, equally "real" and actually wider, that may be similarly proportioned to yours and closer in height, 64-1/2" tall and width, 46-1/2".

This one is Mahogany, not Ash or Walnut, and was sold at auction in Iowa (where late 19th C furniture is still a lot more popular than it is here in New England) for $330.

BTW, don't confuse an asking price, on eBay or anywhere else, with what things actually sell for... but it's possible that the marketplace, like me, prefers an Eastlake Buffet proportionally taller. Just sayin'.

But I remain curious about just how wide and tall your piece is. It's clearly Eastlake, and, I agree, probably Walnut. The marble top appears to have slipped a bit to the right, but that's easily addressed. It could do with a good clean up, a paste wax (or a thin coat of shellac) to shine it up, and all its drawer pulls. Somebody will love it.

With that size, I'm thinking it's a wash stand. An elegant upscale one.

My thoughts exactly, IF it's closer to 36" wide than to 48... But then the problem is that you couldn't be much more over four feet tall and still see your face in that mirror, which is definitely proportioned as a buffet mirror.

??? I just don't know what to think.

Good heavens!! What does it matter if you call it a "wash stand" a dresser or a buffet??
It's a very lovely Eastlake marble topped piece. Small and because of that desirable. Missing a pull, but the burl veneers is lovely, the marble top is not cracked adn there is a lovely age affirming burn on a shelf from a candle.

I agree with linda.

Thank you, lindac92 for your comments. Yes, I do have the missing handle. My dad and his bro opened a mom-and-pop retail furniture store when they returned home from the war in the 40's. They borrowed $500 from "my rich uncle" to start the business. They sold retail and also bought and sold used furniture. The business flourished for 56 years. This is one of the pieces they bought (probably for next to nothing). It turns out that the piece was at one time in the family of my nephew's wife so I want them to have it. I asked for a ballpark figure value just b/c I'd like the other 2 grandkids to have something of equal value. Thanks so much to all of you for your input.

I don't think the hardware on the drawers looks original, they are a variation of batwing bail pulls, not particularly Aesthetic/Eastlake looking.

This is the sort of furniture that to some extent has what I call "no particular value". Any fine example of first period furniture (and this isn't first period technically, but it was an original design more than revival, at the time) will tend to hold value over time, but more ordinary examples will end up going for what someone feels like paying for it. So for example, a very nice highboy from the Federal period will still command over $100,000 in my market (and the $8M Garvin Carver table was sold in my local market) but ordinary pieces of Federal period furniture go for next to nothing or sit unsold.

This particular piece of furniture would not net $200 in my local market, it doesn't matter that it's a nice sturdy piece of furniture with an undamaged marble top. This is the "brown furniture" that "nobody wants" according to a lot of people in the antique and vintage trade. People will pay as much for an almost ephemeral piece of furniture from IKEA. It doesn't make a lot of sense, but that's how it is in the Mid Atlantic East Coast Market.

Thanks palimsest for that info. Love your "creative" description of Ikea furniture. In Louisiana, we don't have an Ikea store but we do have WM, Lowe's, etc. As previously explained I am not selling the piece, and I'm not fond of the style. My mom collected the purple Carnival Glass, and I'm not fond of that either. But I did inherit from my Grandma Mamie a service for 12 of the amber Iris and Herringbone kitchen dishes (was that considered carnival?), and I treasure it. It doesn't have much monetary value but lots of sentimental value and I wouldn't trade it for the world. So pal, I'm curious, what kind of market is there for MCM on the Mid Atlantic East Coast?

what kind of market is there for MCM on the Mid Atlantic East Coast?

Astronomical:

Compare this (retail) piece offered at a PA antique store with a listing on 1st Dibs, which is a pricey site:

$1530.

Versus pieces like the Ettore Sottsass Carlton bookcase. Multiple examples selling in the $16,000 range

And this Paul Evans piece for Directional (so a manufactured piece) at

$38,000

And if you think that is outrageous, this studio piece by Evans. (made by his workshop rather than designed by him and made by a furniture company) is offered at $550,000

Even production pieces like George Nelson for Herman Miller are averaging over $5000

The market on the East Coast has moved on, and Victorian is relatively dead.

Around here in the Midwest they are slow to sell and a piece like that would bring about $150. I think it is lovely. BTW- there is an online site that sells reproduction hardware. Most Eastlake style pulls run about $13.

The drop pull is Victorian....the ones on your dresser would have been on a kitchen cupboard. An east lake dresser would have had a bail and a flat back plate...
http://robinsonsantiques.com/drawer-pulls/drawer-pulls.htm

I think cgard2 had a good explanation for pricing. It is hard to compare prics if you are not looking at the same type of item. Her imput was really helpful.

Mine has some similarity to czarinalex's dresser. It has the original pulls made of ebony. This type of pull took a lot of abuse and came apart pretty easily.

I realize the pulls on my dresser are really bin pulls. I had a lot of trouble finding a matched set of 8 pulls with the hole spacing I had. I kinda like them though!

The bin pulls at least reference the right style and they are kind of like backplates (in 3-D) without the bails.

Sam-md, your dresser is Victorian and not Eastlake....your pulls are appropriate for that dresser but not for Eastlake.

czarinalex,

Vandyke's Restorers has several types and sizes of Eastlake bail pulls if you wanted to try and find something completely correct, or close to it.

Palimset, thanks for the pics. I far prefer those production G. Nelson pcs than the designer pcs. My sis-in-law and I attended an 1800's something estate sale of a Louisiana planation home that included a general store on the grounds, barns, etc. and during down time we visited with the lady doing the sale. Her words matched yours about the "brown furniture" and she had the same thing to say about the craze for MCM. Blue Onblue, thanks for reminding me that repro hardware does exist. I had forgotten. Czarinalex, what a beautiful piece. PS I like your bin pulls. And sam_md, there's another beauty. Cgard2, you've aroused my curiosity about measurements. I need to go check on the house soon and when I do, I will get them. Thanks for all your help.