Does anyone have any information (value) about this postal table?
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Ebbytwin2572 on Nov 05, 2013Oh wow is all I can say about this table @Carol. So many uses for this piece that you should sell on line to get as many buyers as you can. I would not paint it at this time as the next owner might want it just like it is. Hope it finds a happy home!Helpful Reply
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Grace W on Nov 05, 2013call the post office which is stamped on the bottom or call ANTIQUES ROADSHOWHelpful Reply
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Mary on Nov 05, 2013maybe it is a sorting table.Helpful Reply
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PAT B on Nov 05, 2013no end to what you could do--Helpful Reply
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Liz H on Nov 05, 2013I love it....it is probably for sorting mail. I can imagine that if there are similar pieces out there, a lot of ppl might remove the sides in order to use it as a regular table. it is lovely, and is probably worth quite a bit.Helpful Reply
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Suzzie Vanheusen on Nov 05, 2013check ebay or estyHelpful Reply
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Kelly Cook Barnes on Nov 05, 2013Try asking someone that deals with antiques.Helpful Reply
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MaryEllen Poulin on Nov 05, 2013This looks like an old dry sink to me. Here is a link that may be of help http://www.newyankee.com/index.php?id=53#!/~/product/id=7916677Helpful Reply
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Kathy on Nov 05, 2013I would take a few pictures, print them out and take them to a local antique dealer.Helpful Reply
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Kara Lynn Small on Nov 05, 2013The markings are probably measurements for mail volume. We have to measure everything, lolHelpful Reply
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Diane Sherow-Pross on Nov 05, 2013yes looks like a sorting table to me as wellHelpful Reply
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Lindsay Jackson on Nov 05, 2013Found one similar on ebay here: http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-1909-post-office-usps-mail-sorting-table though it's curvedHelpful Reply
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Cheryl P on Nov 05, 2013It would make a great shadow box table with a glass top, treasured memories to change out for each Holiday!!Helpful Reply
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Lindsay Jackson on Nov 05, 2013and this Parisian one for $3600 at 1st dibs: http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/tables/center-tables/parisian-mail-sorting-table/id-f_375826/Helpful Reply
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Jocelyne marchand on Nov 05, 2013do you remember what you paid - that should give you an idea of its value shouldn't it?Helpful Reply
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Jennie Brinker on Nov 05, 2013ITS A SORTING TABLE.Helpful Reply
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Euni Moore on Nov 05, 2013Mail bags were dumped out on the table and then sorted by address. My father-in-law retired from the USPS and sorted his mail on something similar. No idea behind the holes in the corners.Helpful Reply
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Csc251243 on Nov 05, 2013It is a dump table. The holes are for trash, such as paper clips, rubber bands, or scraps of paper to go thru so the table will free of debrisHelpful Reply
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Sandra McRuer on Nov 05, 2013I can remember this from our old PO in town,I think they dumped the whole bag of mail in to be sorted to the proper mail box! wish I had one now it reminds me of my Dad,he worked there for many yearsHelpful Reply
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Alma Williams on Nov 05, 2013I am amazed that so many of you found the answer! I love that table and it wouldn't be going anywhere if it were in my house. ;o)Helpful Reply
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Barbara Gibbs on Nov 05, 2013didn't they use something like that in the movie :Miracle on 34th Street" ?!?!?! :)Helpful Reply
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Pamela Schultz on Nov 05, 2013You could check out WhatsItWorthToYou.com, for a small fee they will do an online appraisal. If your a Handyman Club of America member you get a discount. I had an appraisal done & paid under $10.Helpful Reply
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Carol Love on Nov 05, 2013Antiques Road Show, they should know!Helpful Reply
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Sharon Healy on Nov 05, 2013It looks like a fish cleaning table that you find on a pier. Hence , the holes on each side for the water to run back into the ocean.Helpful Reply
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Marilyn on Nov 05, 2013I worked for the post office many years and I don't recall ever seeing one before!Helpful Reply
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Evelyn Pehnke Frankovich on Nov 05, 2013I don't have an answer, but I'd like to buy it!Helpful Reply
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Alice Gerber on Nov 05, 2013shoot just the wood alone is beautiful. I would fill it with momentos or treasure (indian stones? ) and attach a tempered glass table top onto it. lolHelpful Reply
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Terri Brodfuehrer on Nov 05, 2013looks like a vintage lobster or crab sorting/measuring table.. the holes for water drainage.Helpful Reply
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Mary Peters on Nov 05, 2013Remember these, at the post offices, growing up.Helpful Reply
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Cathie F on Nov 05, 2013Great piece with a glass top would make a killer table!Helpful Reply
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Eli249086 on Nov 05, 2013It's a sorting table like they said, it's beautiful. I would be handing this down through my family. I would not get rid of it.Helpful Reply
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Anjie Lucas on Nov 05, 2013It's giving me ideas on what to do with the old foosball table in my garage!Helpful Reply
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Ginger H on Nov 05, 2013This would be beautiful to use as a display box/kitchen island. Anything you love to collect inside with a piece of glass cut and allowed to overhang equally on all sides a couple of inches. @CCHelpful Reply
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Dorene H on Nov 05, 2013My husband worked for the US Postal Service for 35 yrs. He said never seen a table like that . I know that doesn't helpHelpful Reply
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Constance Giacobbi on Nov 05, 2013It is only worth what someone is willing to pay you for it.Helpful Reply
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Virginia R on Nov 05, 2013It is definitely NOT a table for fish since it has "property of PA PO" There was one of these in our little town post office where I grew up in the 40's and 50's. I would not let it go until you do really thorough investigating. I would guess it's value to be no less than $500 and possibly much higher than that.Helpful Reply
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Hddebber59 on Nov 05, 2013Great table... bet it would be good for a laundry room for folding clothes.Helpful Reply
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Karyl Conard on Nov 05, 2013I think I recall tables like this in the early 50's (they were already old then) used to sort the mail. They dumped bags of mail into them as it arrived in trucks and then sorted, I think. My dad was a postal worker and my mom would send me in to tell him we were there to pick him up at the end of his shift.Helpful Reply
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Michael Moore on Nov 05, 2013it's a sorting table, see them in smaller P.O. You could look it up as that. http://www.urbanremainschicago.com/c-1920-s-antique-american-industrial-reinforced-timeworn-ohio-post-office-mail-sorting-cart-with-double-wheel-casters-and-iron-pipe-stretchers.htmlHelpful Reply
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Lynn Owens on Nov 05, 2013I would love to own this table, it's beautiful!Helpful Reply
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Christine on Nov 05, 2013I've seen similar tables over the years and those were called wash stands or wash tables. I stand up were supposed to keep the water from getting all over. But this one has holes (drain?) What ever kind of table it is, it sure is pretty!Helpful Reply
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Linda Helm Hildebrant on Nov 05, 2013Looks like an old sorting table at the post office.Helpful Reply
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Mary Bias Woodall on Nov 05, 2013It is a Post OFFICE table. The holes are to enable cleaning debris from the table, the markings are to enable volume estimates.Helpful Reply
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Laurie K on Nov 06, 2013This is the closest I could find online. Your table appears to be an old sorting table and comes, I guess, with the type of pigeon-hole rack like the one in this photo I found.Helpful Reply
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Laurie K on Nov 06, 2013This it the closest I have found online so far. Your table ppears to be an old postal sorting table that, perhaps, used to have one of these pigeon-hole racks with it.Helpful Reply
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Sally Soltis on Nov 06, 2013I would go to the antique road show and find out!!!Helpful Reply
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Cheryl Pegram on Nov 06, 2013not worth a penny more than someone is willing to pay for it :/ I Love it though :)Helpful Reply
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Irlene Petersen Mears on Nov 06, 2013Mary Bias Woodall is correct! It is a sorting table. The holes are to push dirt through that accumulates. All mail is measured. The lines help measure the mail quickly.Helpful Reply
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Linda J on Nov 06, 2013Cheryl is right. it's worth what you can get someone to pay. set the price a little higher than you would be thrilled with and don't second guess yourself. if it doesn't sell lower the price until you say to yourself, "if I can't get that amount, I don't want to sell." EZ stress free system.Helpful Reply
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Julie Moses on Nov 06, 2013I saw one of these in a museum, It was in a train mail car.Helpful Reply
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CC on Nov 06, 2013Wow thanks for all the responses and suggestions. I paid $500 when I bought it and have used it as a decorative potting table it was great to sweep dirt out the holes into a bucket. I hate to part with it but we are downsizing and my children don't share my love of old pieces. I'm going to try a few of the suggestions above and try to find a value for it as I'm not in a hurry to sell. If anyone wants to buy it I'm in MI so send me a message and an offer...I love Hometalk!Helpful Reply
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Amy Woods on Nov 06, 2013You can send a photo to Country Living Magazine. They have a regular feature called "What is it, what is it worth?" Their antiques experts can give you a history and value of it.Helpful Reply
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Dee on Nov 06, 2013Some fine sanding, a piece of glass on top and you would have a beautiful coffee table. How nice it would look with mementos under glass.Helpful Reply
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Barbara Thomas on Nov 06, 2013Love this old sorting table! I'd contact an antique dealer for an appraisal if you can't keep it. 1941 should bring at least your $500 but I think way more.Helpful Reply
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Carole on Nov 06, 2013No idea about the value or history of this piece but what a find! Really amazing! You could use it as a workbench in a garage - just needs a top over it. Or use it is a dining table with glass over it - think of all the display potential beneath that glass? Or it could be turned into a kitchen island. There are probably a myriad more possibilities. What a shame you don't have a use for it yourself? With the holes at the corners it might make a neat pool/snooker table?? Just add a green top - you already have two corner pockets if you add some netting! You could turn it into a games table - what about foosball table with the soccer figures on sticks that you move by using the stick handles - a net for goal at either end? You could add a top and remove one side and add drawers to the table for storage? Kids play table for trains on a track (the sides will stop the locomotives falling over the edge of the table? So many uses for this item.Helpful Reply
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CC on Nov 08, 2013Well, I think I'm going to be taking this piece to my booth that I have in a furniture store...it will be fun to decorate it for the holidays. I'm going to put a ridiculous price on it ($1200) and if someone is willing to pay it, I'll sell it. After some research (I still have yet to see an exact replica) there are a lot of old factory tables selling for $1200 to $1500. Thanks for all the comments and suggestions :)Helpful Reply
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