Neo Renaissance Hunt Motif Narrow Oak Buffet
Narrow Hunt motif Cabinet - carved with wolf or fox on bottom cabinet, Lion head with rings - three in middle, one at top. Stained glass cabinet at top.
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This is a heavily carved half-length huntboard that dates to just about 1898 - 1900. It is Victorian era, Renaissance Revival style, Arts & Crafts makemanship and done in oak and quartersawn oak. The theme of the huntboard is carried over in the theme of fresh catch from hunting and it's use as food at that server. The Victorian furniture market is currently slumped. Pieces, even the original period pieces, do not sell for what they used to sell for a few decades ago. The market was further impacted by the Recession. The estimate is based on actual recent past recorded auction sales of comparables. Retail 'asking prices' can be higher and vary.
For insurance value, your insurance company will usually be more apt to use your original purchase price as the replacement value. 'Value for customers' would be your retail asking price, and that can be whatever you feel you can ask and get for it. This is a sale estimate and is based on actual recent past auction sales of comparables.
If I am estimating its value for customers - is this the correct insurance value - or will that be different?