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   McDesign | Dec 31, 2006 01:11am | #1

   Why not make a seated air-hockey table arrangement?

   Forrest - havin' some old theatre seats my own self takin' up space

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   BillHartmann | Dec 31, 2006 01:47am | #2

   "I have no idea when they were built, the DW has had them since she was a kid."

   Insert editoral comment here. Specially since DW does not know who I am <G>.

   This is some thing perfect for ebay.

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   A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
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   plumbbill | Dec 31, 2006 02:01am | #3

   I was thinking that, but shipping is gonna be a pain.

   I was thinking more of Craigslist & someone could come by & pick up or I could deliver fairly local.

   I'm not trying to get rich, but don't want to sell 10 cents on the dollar either.“How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, his precepts! O! ‘tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments.” —Benjamin Franklin

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   Piffin | Dec 31, 2006 04:28am | #4

   They are not rare and those are not even the fancy scroolly kind.
   We had some - cause the wife wanted them - and they sat around for seemed like a hundred years 'till she got tired of theem and tried to sell them at yard sales. Musta gotten 4-5 bucks out of a set.
   There is aset in almost eery antique store around here, but I never look at the prices. They seem to be used more to display old dolls or stuff on.

   I liked scool well enough when i was a kid, but I hated those things, never fit my body.

    

    

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   caseyr | Dec 31, 2006 04:34am | #5

   How much are they worth? As much as you can get someone to pay...

   I bought a couple for my mom. I think I paid $85 for one and maybe $100 for the other one. These were single desks with cast iron frames and oak seats and desk top. I have seen prices all over the map at various antique stores. I think the cast iron framed ones are worth more than the stamped steel ones, other things being equal.

   If you look for "old school desks" on Ebay, you can see that there are quite a few offered and the prices seem to range from $50 to $100 or so for a single desk.

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   plumbbill | Dec 31, 2006 06:47am | #6

   Thanks.

   Yeah I didn't think it was some great rare find that I was going to retire on.

   Just need to get rid of them, I am going to put them on craigslist, just needed a ballpark so they will sell pretty quick & not get raked over tha coals.“How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, his precepts! O! ‘tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments.” —Benjamin Franklin

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   nikkiwood | Dec 31, 2006 08:38am | #8

   I have one of those type of desks, which is a little fancier than those pictured. I blocked up the legs, so the desk area is level, and we use it as an end table. I'm interested too in what you end up selling them for.********************************************************
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   DougU | Dec 31, 2006 07:55am | #7

   Sort of in the same vain as what Piffin already said, there pretty common, got some in the basement of the house that my mom is living in, they were left there by the previous owner and if I sell the place they'll be there for that owner!

   Non functional antiques that take up space often times have fairly low values.

   Doug

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   CAGIV | Dec 31, 2006 02:45pm | #9

   I see no ones asked the important question of does your wife know about this?

   if not you better figure in enough for a new set of nuts, cause when she finds out you sold what she's had since a she was a child, you're going to need a new pair.

   It's not going to get any better when she finds out you sold them to make room for air hockey...

   I only say that because my wife has a very similiar pair that is now kept in storage... because she played with them as a child... we can't get rid of them...

   women...

    

   

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   TomW | Dec 31, 2006 04:09pm | #10

   "I only say that because my wife has a very similiar pair that is now kept in storage.."

   Are you referring to the desks or the nuts?? ;) 

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   rasconc | Dec 31, 2006 04:39pm | #11

   Some would say they get put in storage when you get married.  This one could degenerate fast(;-). (played with etc)

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   Piffin | Dec 31, 2006 07:47pm | #14

   Sounding like everybodies wife has got a pair of these. Eventually, she will tire of it taking up space and moving it, and will sell it or give it away.Until then, it is like having a bad relative. You try to hide it in a corner and put something on top of it to make it look better than it is or pretend it is interesting... 

    

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   McDesign | Dec 31, 2006 07:56pm | #15

   < a bad relative. You try to . . .put something on top of it to make it look better than it is or pretend it is interesting...>

   What do you put on top of Your relatives to make them more interesting?

   I'm thinkin . . . gravy?

   Forrest

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   Piffin | Dec 31, 2006 08:48pm | #16

   with a couple of them, the only thing you can do is close the closet door, LOL 

    

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   rez | Dec 31, 2006 09:35pm | #17

   I was thinking the desks...

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   BillHartmann | Dec 31, 2006 09:40pm | #18

   Not that I am volunteering to acess these, I wonder if they could be made into something usefull.Mount them side by side, maybe with a 24-30" space between them.Then replace the seats with a single long one to make it a bench.And replace the tops with one single on that is just deep enough to cover the support brackets.Put it against the wall for a bench and use the top for some flower, etc..
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   A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.

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   rez | Dec 31, 2006 09:52pm | #20

   Or just the idea of some nice clear old growth.

    

   be a horrid thing to destroy the patina of the decdes of use tho'. Can you picture what a gradeschool piffin signature carved on those desks would bring at a BT auction? :o)

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   McDesign | Dec 31, 2006 10:20pm | #21

   <gradeschool piffin signature carved on those desks >

   Yeah - that old cuniform writing from sharp sticks in clay, that they had before heiroglyphics.

   Forrest - remembering the old days

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   rez | Dec 31, 2006 10:38pm | #22

    

    

   be forming cunning comments

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   JLazaro317 | Dec 31, 2006 09:43pm | #19

   Sounding like everybodies wife has got a pair of these. Eventually, she will tire of it taking up space and moving it, and will sell it or give it away.

   Until then, it is like having a bad relative. You try to hide it in a corner and put something on top of it to make it look better than it is or pretend it is interesting...

     We are still talking of the desks, right?

    John

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   Indianapolis, In.

    

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   DonK | Dec 31, 2006 05:08pm | #12

   Bill-

   I've collected antiques for a few years. The last two of those desks that I got, came to me for free and left the same way. If they were in an antique store, and if they had the right buyer, you could get a few dollars. If I were you, I would be real happy to get $35/piece.

   Don K.

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   plumbbill | Dec 31, 2006 07:33pm | #13

   Yeah I'm gonna put them up on craigslist today for 50 bucks each OBO.“How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, his precepts! O! ‘tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments.” —Benjamin Franklin

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   BossHog | Jan 01, 2007 04:55pm | #23

   Just a thought to add - If you know what school they came from, your local historical society might be interested.
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