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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 6852428, member: 2844&quot;]During the period I know of from experience, traditional furniture makers in the Alpine regions used both ready made and hand made hinges. The latter for an &#039;artisan&#039; look to go with the country style handpainting. Something that was also done in my neck of the woods for some country style furniture. So hand made as such does not determine the age.</p><p>Whether these are machine made or (1970s-ish?) hand made is difficult for me to see in the photos. Besides, unlike Brad and Jeff, I am no expert on hinges.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for establishing that, it gives a clearer picture.</p><p><br /></p><p>It doesn&#039;t look a later addition to me. If you look closely at the gold painted lines, they are actually on top of the black, leaving thin black lines in between the gold lines and the leaves and petals here and there. The heavy &#039;antiquing&#039; interferes with the clarity of the painting, but I think you can see it in this photo which you posted above:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/img_9402-flower-2-detail-jpg.420591/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>All in all it is a nice chest, and your sister got a bargain.</p><p>And that is all I am going to say about it.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie45" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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