<< <i>me and my wife went to her Mom's house this morning and pulled an old kitchen table out of the basement. it's in the garage now until a friend can take a look at it to make a few repairs to a crack, squaring up the leaves/joints and replacing the wooden castors with some leg extensions. then we'll strip and refinish it.
i wonder if that makes us bad people, not using it in its original condition?? >>
not at all, the table sounds like a cheapo item that was not made by a well known craftsman and has no history worth tracing. in other words junk until repaired for use.
if it was a table that george washington used to sit at and write letters to his wife and a person knows this as fact and has been verified... it would be a true shame to attempt to refinish it.... i would only attempt to preserve it when only necessary.
the next great wave in quasi-counterfieting will be to go for the original look, complete with verdigris, carbon spots and splotchy brown tone
Probably very true......because the above description fits many secondary toned coins following their many dippings and strippings. Carbon spots and splotchy toning fit the bill perfectly...if that's what you like. Ironically, those who prefer the stripped look, end up with a dullish brown speckled "beauty" over the next 5-10 years, that is if they hold on to it that long.
One only has to look at the results of auctions since FUN to see that original and choice toned 19th century coins are bringing the most by far compared to their dipped brothers and sisters. And if one continues to dip and strip every 10 years, you get an awful looking mess after the 2nd or 3rd stripping (ie they never look like they did the first time they toned over orig surfaces).
The price of original toned gems is indeed rising quickly because so many of them were ruined over the past 10-15 years. Those paying the big bucks at auction are not asking for dipped bust or seated coinage as well as patterns, nor early cleaned gold. Funny that stripped patterns never really caught on over the past 20 years....wonder if there is a lesson there.
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<< <i>me and my wife went to her Mom's house this morning and pulled an old kitchen table out of the basement. it's in the garage now until a friend can take a look at it to make a few repairs to a crack, squaring up the leaves/joints and replacing the wooden castors with some leg extensions. then we'll strip and refinish it.
i wonder if that makes us bad people, not using it in its original condition?? >>
not at all, the table sounds like a cheapo item that was not made
by a well known craftsman and has no history worth tracing. in other
words junk until repaired for use.
if it was a table that george washington used to sit at and write
letters to his wife and a person knows this as fact and has been
verified... it would be a true shame to attempt to refinish it....
i would only attempt to preserve it when only necessary.
thus the need to bring fundamental questions to
the fore,from time to time. New members, new views
new industry conditions make it appropriate .
Camelot
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<< <i>Keets, I am just wondering why you capitalize mom and not the first letter in a sentence.
Gotta be Fruedian(sic).
<------------Freudian slip??
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<< <i>Mike, i always use lower case unless it's someone or something deserving of respect. >>
Now you brought Nietzche into the paradigm.
Probably very true......because the above description fits many secondary toned coins following their many dippings and strippings.
Carbon spots and splotchy toning fit the bill perfectly...if that's what you like. Ironically, those who prefer the stripped look, end up with a dullish brown speckled "beauty" over the next 5-10 years, that is if they hold on to it that long.
One only has to look at the results of auctions since FUN to see that original and choice toned 19th century coins are bringing the most by far compared to their dipped brothers and sisters. And if one continues to dip and strip every 10 years, you get an awful looking mess after the 2nd or 3rd stripping (ie they never look like they did the first time they toned over orig surfaces).
The price of original toned gems is indeed rising quickly because so many of them were ruined over the past 10-15 years. Those paying the big bucks at auction are not asking for dipped bust or seated coinage as well as patterns, nor early cleaned gold. Funny that stripped patterns never really caught on over the past 20 years....wonder if there is a lesson there.
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