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<p>[QUOTE="Lizzie, post: 9551807, member: 2027"][USER=5833]@Bronwen[/USER] I know it sometimes tough to tell from pictures but the first one is definitely a wood base. I think what you see as crazing is just the grain. The front of the wood has been coated with a shellac or lacquer as it has a glazed finish.</p><p><br /></p><p>I knew from an earlier discussion here that if the second one was indeed MOP than it was mid-century or so but I was hoping it wasn't MOP and was earlier. But MOP it is. Now I need to get the setting cleaned up and hopefully it will wind up a pretty piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>BY the way...Is it Athena as Bluumz thinks?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lizzie, post: 9551807, member: 2027"][USER=5833]@Bronwen[/USER] I know it sometimes tough to tell from pictures but the first one is definitely a wood base. I think what you see as crazing is just the grain. The front of the wood has been coated with a shellac or lacquer as it has a glazed finish. I knew from an earlier discussion here that if the second one was indeed MOP than it was mid-century or so but I was hoping it wasn't MOP and was earlier. But MOP it is. Now I need to get the setting cleaned up and hopefully it will wind up a pretty piece. BY the way...Is it Athena as Bluumz thinks?[/QUOTE]
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