FURNITURE FAKING.
A highly ingenious device for putting on tho market “old” furniture, the faking of which is ouito a considerable industry in tho Western Midlands, has been told to a “Manchester Guardian correspondent hy a dealer. He had eighty Welsh farmhouses on his books, in each of which ho had deposited for the use of the tenant, but also in the hope that holiday people might desire to buy them, “old” dressers and cupboards and tables. Tho inexperienced hunter for old furniture invariably looks for worm-holes. They are provided for him by a judicious peppering with small shot, and lest ho should be (suspicious and probe for worm-dust they are carefully ‘'salted” with fine sand.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6489, 8 April 1908, Page 2
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116FURNITURE FAKING. New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6489, 8 April 1908, Page 2
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