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Message:: [QUOTE="alliems, post: 92021, member: 1291"]My husband's maternal grandparents were both from wealthy Sicilian families.  Some items, like the bed headboard, I'd be surprised if the story of that having been in the bedroom of a Sicilian great grandparent are untrue.  I don't think my mother in law acquired any Italian style furniture in Ireland ever, I think that all did come from her family in Italy/Sicily.  Items may have been subject to poor restorations though, like the headboard seems to have been varnished a lot, or possibly even bits of furniture broke and were repaired in Ireland with newer wood.  We are not seeking to sell or get rid of anything that came from the old family in Sicily.  But items like the 2 gold upholstered chairs, if they are not from Sicily, but rather items picked up in Ireland in the 1960s onwards, that's not family heirlooms we feel, and we don't want to keep them necessarily.  My husband's mother settled in Ireland in the 1960s and this is where the furniture has come from now.  I doubt she ever had the possibility of picking up any Italian/Sicilian furniture in Ireland from the 1960s until her death.  Ireland isn't the sort of place you'd find such furniture, there was never like an Italian community in Ireland, as you might have in many parts of the US, only a handful of Irish families that an Italian had married into, and then a small group of Italians who came to open Italian restaurants etc.[/QUOTE]