This is a decent price, because the retail antique price for this is between twice and three times as high. So the Craigslist price is about right on for that type of transaction.

What a find! I'd love to see the rest of the furniture in the house. It's a well done CL post, I wonder what the story is behind it.

I do like it and had to post it because it is so different from what usually is om our local Craigslist.

I've seen many sectionals copy this style and higher end ones with the extra wood on the back like this.

Waterloo is a ways off of a major interstate I-35) but it's a rather quiet drive this time of year with the cut fields and not much traffic.

Waterloo still probably had some doctors, lawyers and businessmen, especially 50 years ago. The hours from everywhere small town I grew up in --still 35 miles from the nearest interstate--had some very well furnished houses and a few kitchens with Sub-Zero refrigerators and things like that.

How much does the worn arm degrade the price? Seems like it would be an almost impossible repair?

Palimpsest, yes Waterloo/Cedar Falls is the largest city in NE Iowa. There are still big, beautiful old mansions scattered throughout the area (you can always tell where the county seat is driving through).

Oldsmobile and the railroad were very big in the area in the early 20th century. It turns out when they (Oelwein Iowa) said no to Oldsmobile plants and the RR they moved to Detroit.

I can't imagine the house this sofa was imagined for.

Most sofas are not going to be affected negatively price-wise by reupholstery. That said, I think some people are interested in buying pieces in their original condition--even if they end up recovering them themselves. They can control how it's done, and they know there has not been any previous intervention, and they know they are are not paying in part for a new upholstery job. It's possible that the arm wear might not bother some people who want the piece in original condition, too. Personally I would reupholster but in something that would have been appropriate when the sofa was new.

it's a very cool one

thank you for sharing