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Page 18 The Antique Shoppe June, 2017 W. Swedberg, Collector Books. The price guide in the book, from 1992,
Questions & suggests a retail price of around $150 so you probably didn't waste your

money. Two more are shown on page 114 of another of the Swedberg's
Common Sense Answers books, "Furniture of the Depression Era."

with Fred Taylor Q. Hi Mr. Taylor - My husband was given his grandmother's old dresser
to keep for our daughter. We don't have that much room for it. A friend
of mine said that it looked like a good antique and I should try to find
out how much it could be worth. It would
Q. Hello Fred - I hope you can help me. I be better to find out before I do something
have this bench or whatever it is called and I might regret in the future. I don't have a
would like to know what it really is and how picture of it I can send you. We were trying
much it's worth, if anything. It is 24in long, to look for information of the piece but
13in wide and 18in high. The legs are cast the only thing I found was that National
iron. I had the legs bronzed last year, outside Furniture made it. It looks that the date it
only and it cost me $80.00. Did I waste my was made is erased.
money? The only identifying mark is on The dresser has three mirrors, one in the
the inside of all four legs, "Special 824" middle and two that move on the
and "Bust of a Woman". I have been taking Sides. It has what looks like a trunk in the
Antique Week for ten years and I enjoy your middle and three drawers in each side.
columns. Thank you. Richard J.,Omaha, NE Without the picture can you tell me if it is

A. Richard - At first I thought this was This cast iron Art worth anything? —Grettel.
vanity bench but it just didn't look right. Deco bench from A. Grettel - Your piece is called a "three
the 1930s is called a
I believe this is an Art Deco bench from "radio bench" mirror vanity" and was one of the most
the 1930s. It was called a "radio bench" because it was used widely made pieces of bedroom furniture
because it was used to sit next to an old while adjusting in the 1920s and 1930s in America. There
style radio to tune it and adjust it. Several radios of the period. were several companies that used the name
benches like this are illustrated on page 110 National during this period so it is hard to
of "Collector's Encyclopedia of American tell which one made your vanity.
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