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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ghopper1924, post: 3830719, member: 5170&quot;]You are showing perceptive good sense and discernment with your last statement. You are also quite correct: new furniture is of much inferior quality, and so much higher in price than a solid oak piece such as yours.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d be content to let these &quot;newer is better&quot; fools buy their Ashley while the likes of you and I are enriched by living with quality materials and craftsmanship. Except for one thing: There are so many of &quot;them,&quot; and so few of &quot;us,&quot; that it drives down demand - and thus prices - for the quality furniture.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve long since come to an uneasy peace with this. More for me, sez I. There was a time in the 1980s and 90s when antique furniture such as this commanded much higher prices. So now&#039;s the time to accumulate more of the good stuff, in hope and certainty that the high times will come again. I just hope that it&#039;s within my lifetime.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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