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<p>[QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 265160, member: 5066"]I follow Jack Plane's blog, a retired antique trades guy from england and according to Jack</p><p><br /></p><p>"In the Victorian era, middle- and upper classes prospered and many wealthy profligate gentlemen who, with nothing better to occupy their time, thought it amusing to roll up their starched white shirt sleeves, in imitation of the working class, and recklessly carve anything and everything around the home in the then fashionable Elizabethan and Jacobean revival taste."</p><p><br /></p><p>For photos of this vicobethan & vicobean carving up of really nice 18th century english furniture.........it's rather hideous, BE WARNED!</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://pegsandtails.wordpress.com/2014/11/29/picture-this-xxxix/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://pegsandtails.wordpress.com/2014/11/29/picture-this-xxxix/" rel="nofollow">https://pegsandtails.wordpress.com/2014/11/29/picture-this-xxxix/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 265160, member: 5066"]I follow Jack Plane's blog, a retired antique trades guy from england and according to Jack "In the Victorian era, middle- and upper classes prospered and many wealthy profligate gentlemen who, with nothing better to occupy their time, thought it amusing to roll up their starched white shirt sleeves, in imitation of the working class, and recklessly carve anything and everything around the home in the then fashionable Elizabethan and Jacobean revival taste." For photos of this vicobethan & vicobean carving up of really nice 18th century english furniture.........it's rather hideous, BE WARNED! [URL]https://pegsandtails.wordpress.com/2014/11/29/picture-this-xxxix/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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