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<p>[QUOTE="Ghopper1924, post: 4418142, member: 5170"]Yes, Drexel Heritage with a cultured marble top. Due to (you guessed it) cost, real marble hasn't been used much since World War II. The differences are obvious. Cultured marble is not cold to the touch, doesn't weigh nearly as much, and is in fact mostly resin and pigment, with a few stone particles thrown in. </p><p><br /></p><p>Does any part of this piece rotate? If so, then it's a rotary bookcase. If not, an end or side table. Anyway, it could date to just about any decade after WW II, reflecting a kind of Victoriana meets Colonial Revival aesthetic with results intended to shout "classy" to fellow suburbanites, and "big margins" to the manufacturer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ghopper1924, post: 4418142, member: 5170"]Yes, Drexel Heritage with a cultured marble top. Due to (you guessed it) cost, real marble hasn't been used much since World War II. The differences are obvious. Cultured marble is not cold to the touch, doesn't weigh nearly as much, and is in fact mostly resin and pigment, with a few stone particles thrown in. Does any part of this piece rotate? If so, then it's a rotary bookcase. If not, an end or side table. Anyway, it could date to just about any decade after WW II, reflecting a kind of Victoriana meets Colonial Revival aesthetic with results intended to shout "classy" to fellow suburbanites, and "big margins" to the manufacturer.[/QUOTE]
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