How many come up for sale each year?

Forty-four dealers have listed potboard dressers on Sellingantiques, and around eleven come to market in a year. That means you are choosing from a handful at a time rather than a wide shelf. The archive across all years runs to a hundred and five listings.

Why are so many described as Welsh?

Welsh origin is stated in nearly half of all titles, and 'Welsh oak' as a phrase in around a fifth. It reads as a statement of origin rather than a style label. A handful go further and name a county or district: Montgomeryshire, Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire, Glamorgan, the Swansea Valley, Snowdonia and Mid/South Wales each appear once or twice.

What does it mean when only the base is listed?

The rack is a separate carcase, so bases and racks part company over time. Twenty-four titles describe a base alone. Some never had a rack fitted. Dressers offered complete often say so plainly, with wording like 'retaining its original rack'.

Are potboard dressers always oak?

Oak carries most titles, so it is the default expectation. Other timbers turn up roughly one time in ten. Pine is the commonest alternative, then elm and ash. One burr walnut and elm dresser appears in the archive and nowhere else.

Why do listings give a century instead of a year?

Only twenty-two of the hundred and five listings carry a clean year. Twenty-nine say just '18th Century' and nineteen say just 'Georgian'. Vernacular country furniture rarely dates itself, so dealers give a century or a reign. The declared span across the archive runs 1750 to 1930.

Do small examples sell for less?

No. Eighteen titles advertise 'small' or 'very small', and those cluster in the upper half of the range. The earliest claim in the archive is a Welsh potboard dresser 'of Small Proportions, circa 1730', and it sits near the top.

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A country kitchen dresser standing on legs with a low open shelf, the potboard, running between them at floor level, where heavy pots and vessels once stood clear of the flags.