Good to know. This stuff was being sold by an "Estate Liquidator" type guy who has a run down house with these items stored in a couple box trucks in his driveway. He said someone bought a house complete with furniture and they kept some of the contemporary furniture but wanted none of the antiques, so he took them all hoping to turn a profit. He probably paid next to nothing for them, or maybe got them free in exchange for hauling them off.

Hard to see on my monitor, it doesn't look like all four pieces make a suite. No matter, you go some nice pieces. What else does the "estate liquidator" have in his stash? Maybe there is a small table with drawers for a bedside table.

There is no small table. I think I got the best piece in the white marble dresser. He is advertising on Facebook and Craigslist. I first saw it on Facebook. He was trying to get me to take the remaining pieces for $100 each. This is Santa Rosa, 60 miles north of San Francisco.

(Link below) I am not advertising for him.

Antique Victorian Furniture Armoire, Bed & Dressers

Wish I had two nightstands or small side tables to go with the dresser I just bought. I have an iron and brass bed and now this white marble dresser.

The dresser you show is earlier than Eastlake.... need a close up to tell the wood but usually they were walnut with burl veneer on the drawers. Almost always Eastlake has the Knapp joints on the drawers.

Those marble tops on both dressers don't go. they are a newer "thing" made to fix a dresser with a bad top....and perhaps to make it look different. I also don't think the mirror was original to the dresser.

The bed and armoir are a set and both dressers don't match either the bed or each other. And in that style of furniture, ther were no small nightstands. The closest would be those ubitiquitous walnut stand tables. When those were in style you didn't have a bedside lamp, you had an oil lamp across the room and and a tall clock in the hall to chime the hours and no radio and certainly no charging station for your phone!

Yes I understand, sort of. He was selling these things for $200 each or best offer. I bought the one with the white top only because I liked it. The dresser with the gray top is a joke. That is "cultured marble" the same sort of cheap plastic type material you would find on a bathroom vanity. I was surprised you say the white marble was not original to the dresser I bought, but yes that makes sense. The mirror seems to have some detail that matches the dresser base, like the raised rectangular shapes; but yes I guess the mirror does not even go with the dresser. But it is close enough for me that they seem to go together.

I also liked the headboard and bed and he was going to give it to me for $100 but it's small and would work with a twin bed, even too narrow for a full size mattress, and using that headboard with a Queen mattress just looks silly to me. So I figured I could not use it and don't have space for an extra piece I would not be using. He told me the rails were modified so the headboard could be used with a queen size mattress.

I think the wood of the drawers of the dresser I bought is cherry. I don't know woods very well though. Seems lighter than walnut and definitely not oak.

Thank you for the information! I am curious as to the approximate date. It seems you are saying it is even earlier than I was thinking. Are these all hand cut dovetails? No "machine" work? That is what I figure, all hand done dovetails.

The dresser is not supposed to even have a marble top. Hmmm....So much for "dresser with a marble top."

Looks like the mirror and marble top do not go with the dresser base. Maybe I don't like it as much anymore. So much for buying from a character with furniture stashed in box trucks.

I'm not sure. The marble top with the shelf is put together with dowel pins. Quarter inch holes drilled in the marble, and dowel pins. So it could have been a wash stand with no mirror.

For $200 you got a very nice dresser with a mirror that goes with it very well.

They did exist with marble tops....but a careful look will tell you which were original tot he piece andw hich were an "up-grade". Here's a link about the Knapp joint which overlaps with the Eastlake period. Of course every drawer made during that period didn't have that construction but those spaced and skinny dove tails look just a bit earlier to me.

https://furnishgreen.com/fun-furniture-fact-the-knapp-joint/

I never heard of a Knapp Joint before. Now I know what it looks like. It is very distinctive.

I like the way the dovetails look. As you say, spaced and skinny. And if that dates the piece even earlier, all the better. To me the earlier the more I appreciate it.

The marble top is in no way attached to the dresser. It just sits on top. The dowel holes in the marble are only used to connect the vertical back and side splash pieces, and the marble shelf. In other words, the dowels connect the marble pieces, but do not connect the marble to the wood. And on the top surface of the wood dresser you see filled nail holes. I think this indicates the dresser originally had a wood top, which was removed, and the nail holes filled. A correct size marble top was made and just set on top, loose.

Yep.....that's what it is....sure wish you had the original top!

If I were you I would see if there was a way to remove that shelf thingey above the marble top and those support things and then set the mirror on top of that. What looks so odd it that the mirror is sooo tall!

And you let that armoire go for $100??

Thanks for the previous comments alerting me to the marble top not being the original top. I had no idea. I just assumed it was original. At least I know what I have now. Marble looks nice to me, but originality matters. Actually none of my relatives or friends will know any better: If I tell them it's an "all original Victorian dresser" they will believe it.

Yes I could remove the marble shelf and drop the mirror down. That would lower the mirror almost 8 inches, 7.75 inches, and give it a cleaner look.

It would leave me with 4 dowel pin holes that would need to be filled, that are to the outside edges where the removed small vertical pieces are. Two more dowel pin holes along the back edge, but those would be hidden by the mirror when it would be dropped down and mounted touching the marble.

The seller was getting no response to his advertisement, at least not initially. Market is very soft for antiques, at least for private party sales. When I showed up to give full asking price for one of the dressers he figured I could have any of the others, or all of the other pieces, for $100 each.