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Message:: [QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 546585, member: 5066"]Guess what day it is? GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS!!Nope, It's not hump day, it's the day before the sale tomorrow on that pilgrim spindle chair. One needs to be mindful when messing around with furniture this early that it is in fact period. There are a few, a very few woodworkers as time rolls on that still build reproductions of this early furniture in exactly the same way using exactly the same tools as they did in the 17th century. And, after a hundred years or so the reproductions begin to look period, which they are not.Having said all that, this spindle chair up for sale tomorrow i am 99% sure is a period piece. Early chairs are notoriously uncomfortable so they really have no function around the house other than to look at. My aim is to steal it for $500 or less, estimate is 500-700. If 2 or more people realize it is period and there is also another chair at the MET in the Bolles collection that was built in the same shop.....well, this theft i am planning ain't gonna happen.Sale chair, 1680, eastern Mass. feet restored[ATTACH=full]169454[/ATTACH] A couple similar form chairs that sold in the last few yearsSotheby's- Feet & pommels restored sold for $3500.[ATTACH=full]169455[/ATTACH] Pook- unrestored $4700.[ATTACH=full]169457[/ATTACH] Neal unrestored $3500.[ATTACH=full]169458[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]