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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;808 raver, post: 238642, member: 4654&quot;]I didn&#039;t pay a great deal for the item so it would have been uneconomical for them to go to such lengths, I admit it could have been made to fool somebody else who might have paid more but I have shown it to a number of antique dealer friends and none have said it&#039;s recent, I also sent detailed pictures to a London valuer who used to work for&nbsp; Sotheby&#039;s, and Christie&#039;s and asked for his point of view, this is what he said...... &quot;I think this is a country made piece, may be a blacksmith, and probably copying another example. The font suggests early 19th century - but could be late 18th. It doesn&#039;t matter a great deal. </p><p>It is crudely made and functional and not by a maker (or even apprentice maker I think) that will be sought after. It has lovely naive quality about it that will appeal more to the country oak buyers than to an instrument collector I think. Value is a moot point as it is a one off, but I would guess perhaps mid hundreds and see what sort of response the room gives. In the US there is a much stronger naive following than in the UK, so choose a good folk art sale and it may surprise us all&quot;...&nbsp; I wasn&#039;t really happy with his vague answer so I have been asking around to see if anybody had anything definitive. No matter what the so called experts say it is just their opinion, for an example I sent a picture of my Khatam cabinet to another so called expert (facebook) he insisted it was made in the 1960&#039;s&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]72676[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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