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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Geoff10, post: 4471361, member: 76673&quot;]Here is one or two more I have on this device…..I’ll try to do more soon. What constitutes a authentic antique? I have an old oak fireplace mantle I made from one alter rail that was in an old orphanage my father in law had owned to convert the building to apartments. It was set on fire by some teenagers and he never completed the conversion. I took some chapel pews, the pew ends, and one alter rail wasn’t damaged from the fire, or the fighting of the fire. I reconfigured it to make the mantle for my father in law but when he sold the house, he gave it back to me and when I built my house, I bought an insert that would work with it…..the building isn’t quite as old as the armoire. Not sure this even qualifies as an antique, I’m just a former finish carpenter that had some fun. For sure tho it’s one of a kind. Like all of us….. I know it’s missing one of the applications on the top crown….the headless pin nail holding it in let go and I have like 5 extra replacements saved…..The only other thing I saved from the building was the tower bell…..150 lbs of bronze inscribed for the Franciscan orphanage from Maneely bell in Troy NY in 1912. (Cited from: <a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/hello-forum.70921/#post-4471356" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/hello-forum.70921/#post-4471356">https://www.antiquers.com/threads/hello-forum.70921/#post-4471356</a>)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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