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Default You'd Pay $400 For This Table, Wouldn't You?

On 6/23/2018 12:30 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
My daughter is looking at buying this table. The seller wants $400.

It is rock solid, no wobble at all. It appears that the top has been replaced.

37" x 74"

The 3 drawers are all in good shape and slide easily.

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The top is much newer, yes.

It's worth whatever your daughter thinks it's worth....

If she wants it badly enough to spend (or daddy is willing to indulge
) $400, then it's worth $400. That would be quite good for the seller;
if were to go to auction it probably wouldn't much top $100 I'd guess.

The rest is also pine; question would be whether the intent is to leave
it painted or try to restore to something approximating the original;
fastening a top down thru the top solidly into the rails is
_a_bad_idea_(tm), fortunately either by design or accident the
instigator of that event did leave some gap for movement in the middle
so it hasn't buckled.

If you were to ever fix that, the thing to do is, as you already know,
reinstall the blocks or slot the inner rail for the metal holddown rings.

The leg pockets look sound; it should last indefinitely from that
standpoint...

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