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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 3542867, member: 5066&quot;]I&nbsp; don&#039;t see any reason not to clean or even refinish, I don&#039;t think it&#039;s period, in the photo of the chest interior, the rails are much too sharp, smooth and perfect to be rived &amp; planed by hand.</p><p>The dark stain is probably meant to simulate age as period chests often turned dark/black primarily from smoke.</p><p>It looks like the chest has some nice quarter-sawn oak figure that is hidden by that dark stain. If it was mine, I&#039;d want to see that figure enhanced, not hidden.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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