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Old 08-31-2011, 07:36 PM   #108
footfootfoot
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Originally Posted by glatt View Post
I would really enjoy fixing it. It would be beautiful and sturdy when I get through with it.

I used to have a job right after college in an antique furniture repair place. We fixed them and refinished them, but didn't know a damn thing about provenance or value.
My friend who I sent the photos to started out in a antique restoration shop and was given a highboy with a missing drawer. The owner told him to match the drawer. After fifteen years there the owner would hand a drawer and tell him to make the highboy.

He's very very good, he's made a lot of antiques.
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