Can you tell me the likely value of this cedar chest? I have no idea which is the serial number on chest.
Thanks in advance.
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Similar chests are in the $150 range on eBay
Range from $150 to $300 Ebay!
I have seen a few of them on eBay and they range around $150-175.
It is true that when checking sold listings on eBay you may find a Lane cedar chest that has sold for $40 - $200 dollars or more.
There are problems with thinking this could be current value for your cedar chest. Your chest may be valued along these lines but almost all cedar chests sold on eBay (or other sites) will be 'local pick up only' so that means the buyer will live within the same area as the seller.
We have no way to determine how long an item has been listed before it sells as sellers list items and leave them posted for months. Some sell but a high percentage do not.
The only way you can find the value of your particular chest is to list it for sale and see what happens.
I would recommend you list it on several local sites with pick up only - sites like Craigslist, OfferUp, LetGo, Facebook Groups/Marketplace, Nextdoor.com.
Start your price high and lower it if no one shows an interest.
You will need very good pictures of the full chest - front, top, sides, back, inside and bottom.
"All Lane cedar chests have a serial number. It doubles as the manufacturing date the chest was made when you read the number from right to left or backward. This means a chest generally has a five- or six-digit number that tells the month, day and two-digit year it was built. A chest built on April 1, 1940, would read from left to right 04140. Chests manufactured on two-digit days and in two-digit months generally have at least six digits. If the serial number has seven digits, the first number in the series is the plant number"
I am sorry...I can't read the numbers...the resolution on my device is not good.
Sadly Lane Chests and just about all "brown furniture" has lost favor with today's buyers and most of the chests sell for well under $150 when pristine.
There are a few that are classic Mid Century Modern that are fetching in the $200 range, but that is a rarity.
Yours looks to be in nice shape, so $150 could be a starting point for you if you want to sell. The challenge is these are a supply and demand thing. Where I am there is a huge supply of them and the demand is very low.
Most likely you will have to keep lowering the price until the right person comes along. Selling these online is a nightmare as you have to do local pick up or freight shipping (which most people don't want to bother with). You could try to sell it at a yard sale or flea market or see if a consistent store will sell it for you--which will give you the most exposure. Not all take them as they are a hard sell and take up a lot of floor space, for a long time.
Maybe where you are there is a much higher demand than where I am located in Pittsburgh.
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