A unique piece of folk art in the form of a wooden cabinet is fetching a $18,508 price tag now that it’s been salvaged from a Routt County barn and appraised.
Steamboat Moxie Home Consignments and Design owner Michelle Caragol said the store had been contacted in early June to pick up some furniture from a Stagecoach home and have it sold on consignment. While at the home, the homeowners had Moxie take the cabinet, which had been stored in a barn for the past six years. Caragol said that the “man cabinet,” as she calls it, had been left at the property when the couple purchased the home in 2006 and that the wife didn’t like it so she put it in the barn.
Caragol said she looked at the cabinet and knew it was folk art but had no idea what it was worth. The cabinet owners, who could not be reached Tuesday, thought the cabinet might be worth $200. They were wrong.
The staff at Moxie began researching and were helped a couple of weeks later by a regular customer and artist, who recognized the cabinet was the work of . On the back of the cabinet, they found his signature lightly carved into the wood along with the year 1991.
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