Old English Furniture
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This is a manifestation of the barbarous want of taste of the early Victorian. Certainly brass handles do get out of order occasionally. In course of time even, and unless they were quite the finest, and had originally under- gone a process of mercurial gilding, they needed relacquering, but at least those of the earlier patterns fell down flat against the drawers when they were not in use, instead of projecting into space apparently for the express purpose of tearing women's dresses. Then, too..., the yellow touch of colour of the brass handles is delightful on any furniture, so that the change from it to black knobs is incomprehensible; but it is history, and incontrovertible. Try, however, when buying an old piece to get it with one or two of the original handles and lock-plates on it, and never allow the dealer who is selling it you to replace the one or two originals with a complete set of even genuine old brasses off some other piece. Dealers fre- quently offer to do so in order to effect a sale ; 47 OLD ENGLISH FURNITURE but in nine cases out of ten the handles from one piece will be utterly unsuitable to the other — almost as much an eyesore as the plain black knob.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
This is a manifestation of the barbarous want of taste of the early Victorian. Certainly brass handles do get out of order occasionally. In course of time even, and unless they were quite the finest, and had originally under- gone a process of mercurial gilding, they needed relacquering, but at least those of the earlier patterns fell down flat against the drawers when they were not in use, instead of projecting into space apparently for the express purpose of tearing women's dresses. Then, too..., the yellow touch of colour of the brass handles is delightful on any furniture, so that the change from it to black knobs is incomprehensible; but it is history, and incontrovertible. Try, however, when buying an old piece to get it with one or two of the original handles and lock-plates on it, and never allow the dealer who is selling it you to replace the one or two originals with a complete set of even genuine old brasses off some other piece. Dealers fre- quently offer to do so in order to effect a sale ; 47 OLD ENGLISH FURNITURE but in nine cases out of ten the handles from one piece will be utterly unsuitable to the other — almost as much an eyesore as the plain black knob.
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