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Show ANTIQUE FURNITURE TO ORDER. "Ageing"' furniture by mechanical mechani-cal processes is a latter-day science. Reproductions of artistic pieces dating dat-ing from tho time of Sheraton. Hepplewhite and Chippendale form a specialty business. But the com-1 com-1 plclion of these specimens of hand-' hand-' icraft is not arrived at when the regular finishing touches havo been , applied not until appearance qunl-I qunl-I ifics tho article to be accepted as a "genuine" samplo of bygone daysj Upon the assumption that the offerings offer-ings arc in fact models not imitationsof imita-tionsof the remote periods, fancj prices arc obtained from credulous purchasers. Carvings are sandblasted sand-blasted to ''ogc" angle edges, panels re warped with acid, wood is 'womicatcn" by drills or shot and dents arc accomplished by hammering, hammer-ing, until tho desired "reliable old" asDect is obtained. |