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<p>[QUOTE="verybrad, post: 111612, member: 37"]Your family history puts this before the revival period. If she used it in the 1880s, it would have been old when she got it. However, family histories are notoriously unreliable so I would like to see drawer construction to confirm. </p><p><br /></p><p>Hard to tell much about any possible modifications under all that paint. I am not so sure that the back-splash is original to this. Seems a bit out of scale and rather plain if this is true Empire period.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="verybrad, post: 111612, member: 37"]Your family history puts this before the revival period. If she used it in the 1880s, it would have been old when she got it. However, family histories are notoriously unreliable so I would like to see drawer construction to confirm. Hard to tell much about any possible modifications under all that paint. I am not so sure that the back-splash is original to this. Seems a bit out of scale and rather plain if this is true Empire period.[/QUOTE]
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