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How much would you expect to pay for this Welsh dresser?

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Minecroft · 12/08/2025 21:45

It’s from an antiques shop. It’s 200cm wide x 220cm high. That’s all the info I have atm. (I also know the asking price which seems a lot to me but possibly still worth it). What sort of
££ would make you not fall off your chair?

How much would you expect to pay for this Welsh dresser?
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FitAt50 · 12/08/2025 22:12

£400

IMissSparkling · 12/08/2025 22:16

£600, but I suspect it's a lot more.

Laiste · 12/08/2025 22:17

I'd like to say 2 or 3 hundred but i'm stuck firmly in about 2005 wrt the price of stuff - so don't listen to me 🤣

Its a lovely one. It'd go nicely in my house ...

fedupusingOHslaptop · 12/08/2025 22:20

I bought mine from a local action house, there are always a few, pine, rustic, oak modern, mines Victorian stripped pine. On average they go for £60 plus commission.

Onmywayhometonight · 12/08/2025 22:22

£800 - but I wouldn’t part with the cash. I’d buy it for £50-£100

NotPerfectlyAdverage · 12/08/2025 22:23

Mins carved but possibly not that old. I bought it for £25. An unicycle bought it at auction then decided it was to fiddly to paint into all the carving. They can be very cheap from auctions. Not many kitchens have room for them. Ours takes up stupid amount of room

Ebenezerscrogge · 12/08/2025 22:24

There are lots of these available of varying quality on Facebook marketplace - wouldn’t expect to pay more than a couple of hundred pounds

MrsBungle · 12/08/2025 22:26

at my local auction house that kind of dresser would fetch between £300-£600

Minecroft · 12/08/2025 22:26

How you people finding things so cheap?! Please tell me as I have a Georgian house and sadly not a money tree with which to furnish it.

The only large dressers I can find for £100-200 hideous orange pine type things. Think Argos catalogue c.1990.

Perhaps I need to get to an auction house …. But then again that would involve a considerable investment of my time / travel I suppose.

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Peaceandlabradors · 12/08/2025 22:28

I gave one away much nicer than that on Facebook

Needtosoundoffandbreathe · 12/08/2025 22:28

I reckon that's around £3000. Georgian, excellent condition. Big.

Nearly50omg · 12/08/2025 22:28

Minecroft · 12/08/2025 22:26

How you people finding things so cheap?! Please tell me as I have a Georgian house and sadly not a money tree with which to furnish it.

The only large dressers I can find for £100-200 hideous orange pine type things. Think Argos catalogue c.1990.

Perhaps I need to get to an auction house …. But then again that would involve a considerable investment of my time / travel I suppose.

Buy a cheap one like this and then sand and paint it - you’ll be amazed how well
they come up:)

Minecroft · 12/08/2025 22:29

So we have responses so far ranging from £25-£3000. Interesting. And may explain why I’m so torn !

it’s a very reputable antiques shop, hoping to get a lot more info about the wood and age of the item when I visit . Oak?

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salcombebabe · 12/08/2025 22:30

I've just bought a dresser after searching on Facebook marketplace! There are some real bargains to be had as they're not the most popular item these days

Brenda34 · 12/08/2025 22:32

I saw a nicer Georgian dresser on Marketplace today for less than £200. Hang on and I'll find the link

SarahAndQuack · 12/08/2025 22:33

I can't tell how old it is, or what the state of repair is - I'd want to pull out all the drawers and see.

To me - and I'm no expert, just someone who likes 'old brown furniture' - it looks as if it could easily be pre-twentieth-century. So I would expect the price to be over £500. If it's older, and in really good nick, I've seen them go for more like £2000. If they're very old - and I don't think this is, but as I say, I don't know - they can go into the tens of thousands.

I think with anything like this, you have to just buy what you like. It it is worth £400 to you, then buy it! I have a huge dining table which I adore. It is nothing very special - it's a Waring and Gillow product, hundreds like it, but it is very solid, beautifully made, and I was delighted to spend £420 on it, because my second-favourite option for the space was a much smaller Habitat table, which I think I would always have regretted. As it stands, I have a lovely table that extends to seat 20 people; it has a beautiful easy extension mechanism you can work with one hand, and the patina is gorgeous.

I nearly fell off my chair when I looked at the prices of modern tables made out of solid wood! Never in my life could I justify one of them! And the ones I saw were mostly cheaper-looking at less sturdy.

OTOH, if you feel ripped off, then don't bother! Antiques rarely keep much resale value, unless they are flawless and very unusual, and you'd be too nervous to use them if they did. Better to compare it to the price of a new piece of furniture, and think whether that makes you feel good or bad about it.

BaronessEllarawrosaurus · 12/08/2025 22:33

Very few houses have room for bigger dressers, it's why mine cost me £20 from ebay.

ShrubRose · 12/08/2025 22:34

The middle drawers are a completely different colour.

Are they original to the piece?

You would want to find that out.

Brenda34 · 12/08/2025 22:34

https://www.facebook.com/share/19gXcwLWEW/

Probably not in such good nick but 'yours' has too shiny a surface for my liking.

MrsSkylerWhite · 12/08/2025 22:35

Not my cup of tea or period of knowledge. Very much depends whether “brown” furniture is in favour or not. It really varies over the years.

Depending on its age, I’d expect to get it for under £500.

cryinglaughing · 12/08/2025 22:36

I had one similar, couldn't give the bloody thing away.
My dh was all ready to burn it but it was too decent for that.
Ended up giving it to an upcycler/restorer who modernised it and sold it for £800.
She did a fab job on it.

KimHwn · 12/08/2025 22:36

Bloody hell that's lovely. Probably very old and will outlive you, and be passed down to your DC. We have one in the family. I'm saying 3k.

senua · 12/08/2025 22:37

Perhaps I need to get to an auction house …. But then again that would involve a considerable investment of my time / travel I suppose.
The auction would be on the internet so you don't need time / travel for that. But you will need time / travel to view it and (hopefully) pick it up.

I thought that you could furnish large Georgian / Victorian rooms fairly cheaply because modern houses can't take the huge, old furniture, so there is little competition.

senua · 12/08/2025 22:38

I'm another one who is suspicious about the difference in the colour of the wood in the middle section.

Dabberlocks · 12/08/2025 22:40

ShrubRose · 12/08/2025 22:34

The middle drawers are a completely different colour.

Are they original to the piece?

You would want to find that out.

Agreed. I'd also be wanting to know whether the top is original or a later addition.