The chair is pretty much "nothing"...It's a corner chair, nicely made, looks like maybe oak...finish isn't good, looks like it's been re-done. Not typical of any style that I know of. I would put a cute round cishion on it with tassles and ties at the chair posts.
The chest is a puzzlement...hand done dovetails, but paneled sides and the back is a newer style. ( by newer I mean about 1880 not 1830!!) I believe the top is new to the piece. Maybe it had a mirror on the top at one time? Or perhaps even a marble top?
Those screws in the back? Do they look like they are newer than the rest of the piece?
As for what kind of wood? hard to tell when all i can see is that edge of the drawer....but the drawer looks like walnut....but sure could be pine or even oak.
I would sure be stripping that paint in a hurry!
Re reading your post....you painted it??!! And sanded the top? No wonder I thought it was new!! That's a big no no! It now looks like something that came form a cheap furniture store, with a bad "shabby chic" finish....until you open a drawer or stand back and look at the proportions of the piece.
As is...it's not worth what you paid unless you find someone who is still into shabby chic....properly re finished ( and not sanded!) it's worth about $400....depending on where you are.
You took a lovely old chest and made it look like a piece of particle board stuff painted white.
Linda C

The chair is odd - it has some bent-wood and some straight wood pieces. It's definitely worth $10. I wouldn't begin to be able to place a date on it, except it'ds after the invention of the technique for steaming and bending.

It had a really dark, really beat up finish on it when I bought it. Sanded it down.

The chest has a $300 sanding and paint job. That's about how much you knocked off the retail price by grabbing for the sand paper before finding out what it was.

What you paid $80 for was a late 1800s or early 1900s (the teeny casters came and went by 1920s) of unknown wood, probably with the original (but really dirty) finish. Might have been walnut, if the top is representative, and that panel construction usually indicates solid wood. Carefully cleaned and restored, $350-600 here, depending on size.

As it is, sanded and painted, it's just another old white dresser. You could strip it, but you can't undo the sanding.

OK...I messed up with the chest! But it really needed something to even make it usable. Made the mistake of bidding at auction, without looking at the piece closely beforehand. Looked good from a distance. When I first started it, my intent was not to paint it. As I got into it though, it seemed a reasonable solution since the original finish seemed to be a cheap laminate sort of thing....pieces of it were chipping off...not just paint chips-thin layers of wood. Made me think it wasn't solid wood. The top had big gauges in it that only sanding could fix. I didn't even know what room I was going to put it in at first. I liked the way the top looked after sanding it-reminded me of butcher block, so I decided to put it in my kitchen. When the rest of it didn't look anything like the top (with good sized pieces of wood chipping off) that's when I came up with the (now bad) idea of just painting it white. Now, it's in my dining room and looks alot like my old farm table-that I've never touched. Does it look cheap, too? Bought it from a Chadd's Ford, PA antique dealer. She said it was over a hundred years old and may have been made by an Amish farmer (Amish very prevalent in this area). It had the white legs when we purchased it.Here's a picture of the table, but please tell me more about the chest...would a truly good piece have what appeared to be a laminate type of finish? Don't want to wreck anything else!
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I suspect the top of the dresser was not original to the piece.
If you paid $80 for it you did just fine....but you messed up after you bought it.
As for the table....do you really want to know my opinion? What I think about it?

LOL! Stop reading now if you don't!
I think that table is many things put together. Sure....perhaps the boards are 100 years old ( which in the terms of antiques is not very old!) but I sure think that table was put together by someone who saw you coming!
Suggestion? Do some home work on what old furniture looks like and what it should cost...
Find someone to take you under their wing and show you what to look for!
You are in the Mecca for antique buying!! There should be all sorts of wonderful stuff around....if you avoid the shops in Chadds Ford and hit the farm auctions and flea markets!
As to the chest? get some stripper and remove the finish....
Rub it with steel wool after it dries.....and maybe a gentle rub with a garnet sand paper...
It likely will be a warm brown....stain or not and put some poly urethane on it.
Back to that table....When did she say an Amish farmer made it?? Yesterday? LOL!
It appears that someone took the floor boards out of the attic of an old building, or out of a barn and made some legs and painted them white...a la Ikea!
But how about those chairs?? The one on the near side of the table on the right?.....and the one on the far side...in the middle?
Let's see more of them!!
Linda C

Personally I love the look of your table and chest. I love the way you have used mismatched chairs around your table. The chest fits in perfectly. I have an almost identical table that we use for our computers, it is built out of old barn wood and sturdy as heck. Try to buy a solid wood chest anywhere for 80.00, not happening.

Betty

Betty,

Thank you so much for your nice comments...I feel better now!

Dee.

I have a sugestion...Leave the top as is and paint the bottom part black, but the antique style bin pulls on the top drawer...

I really like the piece.

Jane

If the chest is heavy, might be walnut but I rather think poplar. Turn of the century and well made with the dovetails. You can't go wrong for $80.00. The chair is interesting and would indeed be cute gussied up withcushion/tassels. Great for a boudoir/dressing table or place to put on your shoes. Fine antiques? no, but for the shabby chic look, perfect! You have an eye for value in my opinion.

My chair and rocker would like to invite your table chairs to CA for an extended visit. Do they have saddle seats? I couldn't tell by your picture.

Wing

Huh?...Is that a good thing? Do I get to come to CA also? Not sure about saddle seats. Not familiar with them.

D.