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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joan, post: 625934, member: 5398&quot;]I love sturdy old chests/bureaus like yours because of the solid wood construction, large/roomy drawers on the bottom, and small &quot;hanky&quot; drawers on the top. I have a similar chest in butternut with hand-cut dovetailing and was told it was late 1800s. I bought it 20+ years ago for about $50, but it had an ugly coat of black paint, so I stripped it and refinished it with many coats of hand-rubbed tung oil. I suspect you&#039;ll never know who made yours -- most were probably made in small no-name cabinet shops or home work shops. If buyers nowadays prefer to do a trendy paint job on old furniture, then it wouldn&#039;t be worth your time and money to refinish it if you plan to sell it.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]181868[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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