OK, since no one else will say it, YOU SUCK! Great find, would love to fall into something even half as good.
ahh, another refugee from the OldTools listserv. I will add a hearty "YOU SUCK" as well! BTW, that's an in joke from a very old mailing list that translates to "nice snag, i'm just ticked you beat me to it"
But seriously folks. I doubt that this item has any real value as a "collector" piece, so you shouldn't have to worry about messing it up by cleaning gluing and refinishing it, As a functional piece of workshop tooling, its value could range from Immense, to just another horizontal surface to pile pen blanks and stuff on. Depends on if you actually do any hand planing, jointing, or smoothing. If you know the difference between a # 608 bedrock and standard bailey # 7, you may end up using it a lot. If not, well, we all need something else to stack pen blanks on.
I have seen beautifully restored, immaculately finished and polished benches that would not look out of place in a museum, and ragged beat up old warhorses that had actually had hundreds of pieces of soon-to-be fine furniture attached to them, but none of them were without value to someone. If you are this benches someone, then have fun turning it into whatever it you want it to be.