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   From: jsbarto1@cox.net   
      
   Hello,   
      
   I hope someone here on the newsgroup can assist me.  I'd like to find out   
   the ballpark value of my mahogany bedroom suite.  It was previously my   
   mother's, and I think she bought it sometime in the 1940s before she and my   
   father married.  I've had it since 1987.  The "highboy(?)"--what my father   
   used as his dresser--has a certificate affixed on the bottom of the sliding   
   cufflink tray (inside one of the top drawers), which indicates that the   
   pieces are from "Kindel Furniture, Grand Rapids, MI."  Since my mother   
   *never* lived in Michigan, I'm figuring she ordered the pieces through a   
   furniture store where she lived in Upstate NY (Binghamton, NY area) in the   
   1940s.   
      
   Anyway, the certificate lists care instructions, but also shows a serial   
   number (B-17715). Is there an online database where I can look up the serial   
   number and find out more about the piece and set?   
      
   I'm more curious than anything else, as the bedroom suite is by far the   
   nicest furniture I have.  Although I'm considering going on an extended   
   overseas trip in the next few months, I'd most likely put the bedroom suite   
   in storage.  I'd pay *thousands* for something as nice now!   
      
   Thanks,   
      
   Jean in Norfolk   
      
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