How do I value furniture?

I have an old stickley table similar to the one in this picture:

Andy Dingley...

What do you mean by "old Stickley" ? Old (traditional 1900-ish
Gustav-style) couldn't be further from that piece. The modern Stickley
company are making similar stuff, but it's certainly not "old" - nor is
it fetching the proces that genuine old Stickley does.

RicodJour...

That table in the picture is an oval form and the dealer wants ~$14K
for it.

It has some inlay work and a leather top. Any ideas on how I can find
out the value of it? I don't have a story to go with it so I can't go

Andy Dingley...

You talk to someone local who knows furniture and can physically see it,
and then they tell you.

Why do you think it's Stickley ? Is it marked ? Does it have any of
Stickley's characteristic design features ? Is it listed in one of the
Stickley catalogues (reprints are a few bucks - if you don't have one,
you're really not doing your homework on this table).

on 'Antiques Roadshow'. It came with the first house I bought.

RicodJour...

I didn't know that Stickley made any veneered drum tables (shows you
what I know), but here it is, or at least something similar by
Stickley:

Drum tables (that's what I think you have - a round top and it rotates)
can be all over the map price-wise. In general, most drum mahogany
drum tables are worth a few or several hundred at auction. Stickley's
crafstman style stuff is off the charts, but I don't believe that's the
case with most of their other style furniture.

What will you use the value for? Insurance purposes or are you going
to try and sell it? Here's what's sold recently on eBay (note that
other people might not have listed it as a drum table - I'll leave the
search refinement to you):

Kris Baker...

When did you buy that first house? Prior to 1970?

I grew up with a table just like that (color, apparent size, no
wheels, just one drawer, same hardware)....and ours came
from the S&H Green Stamps store, in the late 1950s or
early 1960s. I don't think that top is leather, is it? Ours
wasn't.

Ours wasn't Stickley...and that's not an example of "the" Stickley.