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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Geoff10, post: 4471109, member: 76673&quot;]Hello to All!</p><p>I’m just a guy who knows nothing about antiques, besides that fact I am one myself.&nbsp; I’ve had what I consider to be an honest to goodness antique for about 30 years.&nbsp; Every 10 years or so, I get tired of just walking past it and figure instead of just having it, and initially repairing the damage that was on it, I’d like to see if I could learn more about it. So I find you all…..the people that should be able to possibly help in taking my earlier investigation to a deeper level.&nbsp; </p><p>My question is this…….is there a resource somewhere online, besides a hit and miss image search on google, that is a sort of anthology of antique pieces, somehow classified by type of piece, construction method, construction material, time period for construction method, etc. that might give more information than what I was able to discover just after I decided to keep my piece instead of discarding it?&nbsp; </p><p>I had an old three unit apartment building I bought back in the mid 80’s that had been converted to 6 units.&nbsp; The conversion however, left the rear three apartments without closets.&nbsp; When I inherited the building it came with a HUGE oak armoire as one of the closet solutions.&nbsp; It is like a 9 piece puzzle that just sits there under its own weight. Because nobody takes care of rented property like they owned it, you can guess it suffered because of that.&nbsp; Either the drawer, one of the doors, always seemed to be an issue with it every time we went in to clean for a tenant change.&nbsp; I honest to god had a estwing hammer and hatchet in my hand to just get rid of it when my wife found the missing pieces in the basement, and yelled up at me to not start breaking it down. Someone had screwed a circular tie rack on the inside of one of the doors…..it was just sad with broken carvings, screw holes….etc.&nbsp; </p><p>Anyway, I’d love to know as much more about it as I can find, and best methods to make it as nice as possible and not leave my kids with ANOTHER project from dad.</p><p>I built my house with a little over 9’ ceiling in my master bedroom so it could be protected and assembled up there.&nbsp; It has no markings on it. </p><p>Ive traced it back to early 1900s from the family I bought the building from before older people that might have acquired it had passed away. </p><p>I’ll attempt to include a picture so anyone can get an idea what I’m describing.&nbsp; The earliest member of the family said at one time it was used by a priest as a vestments closet, but I don’t give that any credence because there is NOTHING in the carvings that suggest any religious connections…….anyway…..ANY comments would be helpful. </p><p>Thanks in advance to anyone who could help in guidance to refinishing or identifying it’s possible origins.&nbsp; I think it’s worth more effort.&nbsp; You may not agree, but it’s like a family member now….</p><p>STAY SAFE ALL!</p><p>Geoff</p><p>[ATTACH=full]387058[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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