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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clutteredcloset49, post: 236382, member: 85&quot;]In today&#039;s market not as much as it used to be.&nbsp; A few years ago $300 plus.&nbsp; </p><p>Wait a few years and it will probably go back up.&nbsp; Everything goes in cycles.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the 1970s people were painting furniture like they do today.&nbsp; </p><p>Then prices for antique furniture climbed sky high.&nbsp; Now the prices are down again.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a beautiful piece.&nbsp; If you paint it and later decide to strip the paint off and redo it, you will have lost the patina of the old wood.&nbsp; That only comes with years of polishing.</p><p>But it is your piece and you are entitled to do what you want with it.&nbsp; </p><p>To those of us who love old furniture, we cringe when we hear people are going to paint good pieces such as this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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