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I have an antique set of brass aperitif glasses inlayed with mother of pearl, along with the matching brass tray. I have a French 2 Sol coin from the 1790's. It's not valuable, I just wanted something that old. And my house was built in 1900. I only wish the woodwork hadn't been painted over. Stripping the paint isn't a realistic option, and if I put in new woodwork, it probably wouldn't have the look of old woodwork that I like. Our house didn't have a built-in buffet like a lot of houses of that era did, but we did find one that had been pulled out of a house built in 1888. Unfortunately, the buffet was painted black by someone who thought that black would look better. Savages... There are some parts of it that weren't painted, and you can see how nice the wood looks. It's a nice deep red-toned wood. Unlike the woodwork, that could reasonably be stripped, if I only could get around to it.
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