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Show Antique Furniture Amateur collectors often wonder how there can be so much antique furniture fur-niture In existence. But when they stop to consider that there are thousands thou-sands of homes In Europe still filled with the furniture of olden times, they understand. In the days when furniture furni-ture making was on the crest, there were only iwo classes of people. One was the "haves"; the other the "have nots." There was no middle class, so those "haves" had much. Fine furniture, furni-ture, which was to be found everywhere, every-where, was handed down intact, for In those days a man gave everything to his oldest son and to no one else. In that way estates were not broken up, and family furniture was passed on from generation to generation. Much of It still remains as It was long ago In the old homes. |