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Message:: [QUOTE="Ghopper1924, post: 4176553, member: 5170"]Those of you who've seen the bookcase thread in the Books Forum have seen a picture of this bookcase. I bought it the second I saw it, because I knew it was something special. This is what it looked like:[ATTACH=full]333676[/ATTACH] When browsing E-Bray one fine evening, I found another one that looked like this:[ATTACH=full]333677[/ATTACH] Clearly my bookcase had lost a key element, namely the crest over the center. To my mind, this was no small thing, even though because of the way the bookcase was designed, I hadn't realized anything was missing. So, at great cost and time, I found a magical wood carver out of state, and now my bookcase looks like this:[ATTACH=full]333678[/ATTACH] There can't be more than a handful of people in the U.S. that could do this level of work. Here's a closer look:[ATTACH=full]333680[/ATTACH] So what is your opinion? Was I too "anal" in getting this piece done? I know some people who would just leave the piece "as-is," happy to let it "tell it's story," even if a piece was missing. Still others would scoff at replacing the crest with anything but the original. Me, I feel that it respects the artist's/craftsman's vision to get the piece as close to the original as possible. I also feel like, when it comes to selling the bookcase in the future, it will more than repay the cost of the crest, but that's a supposition on my part. What say you??[/QUOTE]