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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 10512586, member: 6444&quot;]I live in New England and have been collecting 200 year old American antiques for a very long time and although I usually agree with Brad, I have a different opinion on these. I don’t have any North Carolina pieces, but do have many pieces from the time period you purport these to be from, and I don’t see authentic pieces here based on the pics shown.</p><p><br /></p><p>Better pics could possibly change that, but I highly recommend that you send your better pics not to us (only) but also to an auctioneer that specializes in North Carolina furniture, lelandlittle.com. <u>If any of these look authentic to them they will give you a much more believable assessment than the anonymous pickers you find on this forum.</u></p><p><u><br /></u></p><p><u>[strike that for komokwa and replace with the following:]</u></p><p><br /></p><p>The contributors to this site are a disparate bunch of people with interest in antiques for different reasons: pickers, collectors, general enthusiasts, lovers of research, puzzle solvers, etc. But we are all anonymous, and we are all generalists who rarely share expertise in the exact field you are looking for. In this case you want someone who has seen a lot of authentic early North Carolina country furniture, and you will not find an expert on that here. So you shouldn’t completely trust anything we say, especially because we are dealing with limited pictures that probably don’t fully represent the reality of the piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes this disparate group reaches consensus, sometimes it doesn’t, but even when it reaches consensus that consensus is sometimes wrong. Therefore to get the best advice on authenticity and value, you should go with a real expert in the field you need. The good thing is their advice is free, and a great resource in this case would be to consult with lelandlittle.com, an auction company that specializes in antique North Carolina furniture. Here are&nbsp; some of their recent corner cabinets: <a href="https://www.lelandlittle.com/results/search/?add_filters=%257B%2522sort%2522%253A%257B%2522column%2522%253A%2522amount%2522%252C%2522direction%2522%253A%2522desc%2522%257D%257D&amp;search_terms=corner+cabinet" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.lelandlittle.com/results/search/?add_filters=%257B%2522sort%2522%253A%257B%2522column%2522%253A%2522amount%2522%252C%2522direction%2522%253A%2522desc%2522%257D%257D&amp;search_terms=corner+cabinet" rel="nofollow">https://www.lelandlittle.com/results/search/?add_filters=%7B%22sort%22%3A%7B%22column%22%3A%22amount%22%2C%22direction%22%3A%22desc%22%7D%7D&amp;search_terms=corner+cabinet</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If you do that, please update this thread with their opinions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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