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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 6383760, member: 6444&quot;]Ok, we are making progress. I did already try to explain why the screws do not look perfect and brand new to you, when I wrote the above in my first post:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The truth is that the picture you are looking at is of poor quality, and appears to have paint residue on the hinge and screws. That is even more obvious in your blowups of the screws which look like fuzzy blobs taken at an angle. Sometimes it is best to wait for better pics before committing to what you are seeing.</p><p><br /></p><p>What we CAN see in these pics, however, is that the hinge itself is not a hand-forged iron hinge like I showed on my piece. And we can see that the box itself is not made or decorated in the way a 19th century or earlier box would be made or decorated. The lesson is to look at the big picture of the object as a whole, and not to get stuck on one detail (especially when the pic of that detail is hard to make out).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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