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Message:: [QUOTE="Scahill78, post: 4051860, member: 20213"][ATTACH=full]328038[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]328039[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]328040[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]328041[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]328042[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]328043[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]328045[/ATTACH] My grandmother bought this piece of furniture 45 years ago from an antique dealer in Atlanta. She said it was part of a bedroom group that was originally in Franz Joseph’s castle in Austria. She said it was a 10 piece bedroom set that they were asking $50,000. She said she finally  talked the dealer into selling her just  this piece after a year of wearing him down. She said there was a picture of it in the castle but that stayed with the rest of the bedroom furniture. She gave  the piece to a family member who has basically destroyed it. I am thinking of trying to have it restored but I figure that is going to be pretty costly. It appears at some point before she purchased it has been reupholstered due to the flour sack under it.Could anyone help try to identify this piece? How would I be able to trace back something like this to see if I’m fact this story is true? How costly would it be to have this restored and would it be worth it? So sad to see the condition of this now, I remember being a kid and going to her house and I was always mesmerized by this thing and the story.[/QUOTE]