>>7535543Earlier tables are easily distinguished by their ⅞-inch thick tops, but do not command much premium over the current lighter and easier-to-handle ¾ models. Buyers can expect to pay $500 and up for an undamaged example, and $1,500 and up for an early version in birch. Only the 1947 cherry tables are truly rare collectibles, which rarely show up for sale except at high-end auctions.
Two Noguchi tables, one in natural birch and one in ebonized birch, are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
A Noguchi table in ebonized birch is on display at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.