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<p>[QUOTE="Alesia42, post: 4318828, member: 20541"][ATTACH=full]352648[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]352649[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]352650[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]352651[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]352652[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]352653[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]352654[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]352655[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]352656[/ATTACH] Hi!....This is a recent purchase!.....I am absolutely in love with it!!.....I bought this from a private seller...who purchased it from a Estate sale....she said that she didn't know what it was exactly....in looking at the pictures I noticed the paper on the inside...??...so I went to see it the day before I purchased it...because I was thinking that maybe the paper was put there because they had stained it...or maybe it has bugs....but I was pleased to find out that the chest was in the owners dinning room so I felt comfortable that it was free of bugs....not stained and looked to be in its natural aged state........the Chest is approx. 40 in long x 18 in wth x 40 ht .....I think the metal may be white brass?.....I'm not sure if the wood is Elm or Dragon wood??...... the night before purchase, I checked the internet and discovered that the chest is Korean....I got it for approx. $100 which is much less than it is worth.....so where I may have over spent purchasing a pair of vases over the summer.....finding this more than made up for it .....so I was really thrilled about that....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Alesia42, post: 4318828, member: 20541"][ATTACH=full]352648[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]352649[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]352650[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]352651[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]352652[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]352653[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]352654[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]352655[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]352656[/ATTACH] Hi!....This is a recent purchase!.....I am absolutely in love with it!!.....I bought this from a private seller...who purchased it from a Estate sale....she said that she didn't know what it was exactly....in looking at the pictures I noticed the paper on the inside...??...so I went to see it the day before I purchased it...because I was thinking that maybe the paper was put there because they had stained it...or maybe it has bugs....but I was pleased to find out that the chest was in the owners dinning room so I felt comfortable that it was free of bugs....not stained and looked to be in its natural aged state........the Chest is approx. 40 in long x 18 in wth x 40 ht .....I think the metal may be white brass?.....I'm not sure if the wood is Elm or Dragon wood??...... the night before purchase, I checked the internet and discovered that the chest is Korean....I got it for approx. $100 which is much less than it is worth.....so where I may have over spent purchasing a pair of vases over the summer.....finding this more than made up for it .....so I was really thrilled about that....[/QUOTE]
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