Help me identify this buffet?

Bought this about 6 years ago on Craigslist. Neglected. Painted over. We did a restoration on it this year. No visible markings as to mfg, city, date, serial, etc. Can anyone help us identify it?

 

Nice job on the restoration! I'd say early to mid 20th century, could have been made in any one of dozens of furniture factories. In the absence of any label it will be nearly impossible to say who made it. Definitely a piece from the Golden Age of the Dining Room, which has been over for 30 years or so now.

 

Yep, has. About the only sideboards I see at auction that do well are "Huntboards", which are mostly small utilitarian sideboards.

Very nice restore job on your buffet/sideboard

 

Thanks for the kind words. I’ve searched it over. Can’t find a single number, label, brand, nothing. But the quality is there. It’s definitely not a current remake of something mid-century. It sits between our living room and dining room perfectly on this wall. We actually use it for our record player, speakers, and record collection, and of course odds and ends, and some table dressings in the drawers.

 

Very nice restore job on your buffet/sideboard

Appreciate it!

 

(oops messed up that first reply)
Thank you!

 

They simply do not fit well into the modern world these days. People today will spend BIG BUCKS to knock down the wall between the kitchen & dining room to make the kitchen larger.
And yes, even if that wall happens to be a BEARING wall where you have to hire engineers/architects to properly permit it, MOMMY wants that wall DOWN!

 

It's ALL about making that kitchen bigger you see and, the dining room is just collateral damage.
I get it, a lot of space there is not used but 2 or 3 times a year, usually during the holidays so, Mom gets to thinking which is bad news for everybody!
She doesn't know or care that it's a bearing wall or that it'll cost 10k to take it down, it's in the way of Mom's plans and, that's THAT!
And so began the GREAT DESTRUCTION of dining rooms all across America!

 

Well, the problem there is, the room that dining furniture once occupied went extinct!
There are exceptions! though, huntboards (southern sideboards) sell for very good money. They are usually small & tall and often utilitarian, many 19th century examples were painted but even if stripped, doesn't hurt their value.
I am guessing because they are small is a big factor in their popularity, HOT object at auctions! The ladies are on these guys like a bad habit!






And one that still has it's original paint

 

UPDATE:
I got a call this past Friday about this very thing, removing 15' of dining wall that adjoins the kitchen.
Nice house, toney part of town and naturally, a bearing wall full of plumbing, elect. and exhaust duct.
An elderly couple in their 70s I'd say at least, I tried to talk them out of it as the cost was going to be hideous considering all they were gaining is 15 feet of no wall.
Break down of cost
Install steel beam- 8700.
relocate plumbing- 5000.
relocate elect- 2000.
demo drywall- 1000.
replace drywall
and reinstall cabs- 3000.
engineering
& permits - 1500.

TOTAL- $21,200. TO JUST REMOVE 15 LINEAR FEET OF WALL!

 

This is how a kitchen remodel that may have started out modestly turns into a 100k+ project. Totally insane.
Why not just sell this one & buy another house I asked the old man when I had a private moment with him to which he replied, because those are my only choices, buy another house or take down that wall and, I don't want to move.

 

Blimey. You lot pay permits for internal work? That's mad. Those costs are way over what it would be here, too.

 

I had to Permit to put a powder room on the main floor of my Westmount home....
they are very touchy about renovations...

 

Particularly if structural
City inspectors here are not engineers, they require not only an engineer stamped drawing but additionally, a signed letter from the engineer that the project was personally inspected by him & complies with his design.
That way if something goes wrong and it falls down with people hurt or killed, the lawyers are going to have to deal not only with the city but the engineer who designed it as well.

 

When we had our kitchen and two bathrooms renovated plus our basement finished 14 years ago there were framing permits plus electrical, HVAC and plumbing.

 

What permit ? What renovation? I have NO idea what you are talking about ..must have the wrong address....... now go talk to the neighbor with the 20 college students in the 3 bedroom house .........