If you notice the sides on either end that is damaged, they are a separate piece/board/assembly that attaches to the edge of the front stiles. In...
Guesses late 19th, it's probably antique just not period and the style isn't Elizabethan (16th century), it's Jacobean (17th century).
I don't see any reason not to clean or even refinish, I don't think it's period, in the photo of the chest interior, the rails are much too...
The photo of the bottom of the chest looks like black stains from the nails. The chest is old but I don't think period, it probably has been...
Later copy.
AHHHHHHH HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, I see now why the owner/ dealer kept the QA key escutcheons and didn't replace them with W&M as they did for the drawer...
Now that I look at photo of the piece, all the brasses were QA once upon a time, you can see witness marks and holes where they were once present....
Yes, look QA batwing to me on escutcheon, not sure what they call them in the UK. I have no idea if any of the brasses are period, it would be...
This is what your piece is trying to be but doesn't quite get there. Notice the back photo with the bottom rail which is MIA on your chest. Late...
Of course you can do it! It's not that hard, the main ingredient required for success is, patience.
Yes, I have been fooled by photos of pine thinking it was yellow pine/hard pine/heart pine, (all the same species just different names) that...
I'd say the auction house screwed up the listing here so not sure what chair/s they are trying to sell. The title of the listing is "Chippendale...
I don't wax very often, once a year at most, sometimes every other year. Wax can build up on a wood surface and become a dust magnet if you wax to...
I use Johnson's paste wax for exterior surfaces. And no, it's not fancy but it works very well, is readily available & inexpensive. You can spend...
Authoritarians never believe they're authoritarians, everyone must submit to one idea or opinion (theirs) and, if someone offers a different...
One final point about all this, wood is an organic substance, to survive for centuries it needs to be protected against the elements or it tends...
Yes, Kirk in the 1970s was trying to discourage the then disgraceful practice of stripping painted furniture, which was all the rage at that time....
Oh Boy, don't get me started! Many on this forum are grunge people I suspect, misguided souls but maybe good-hearted? I did as well, many years...
Looks good, you did the right thing to refinish in my view.
There is a "grunge" movement in the USA, although at one time it was all the rage, it has lost a lot of steam in the past few years and for good...
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