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Can the difference between a real painted antique and a painted reproduction? Good quality reproductions serve their purpose. They just want to ensure that you get to know you. Here are some tips on how to tell them apart.

Why paint? Mass produced reproductions from India, Indonesia and Mexico come. But antique country furniture was handcrafted by rural furniture-makers as utilitarian furniture - kitchen tables, chairs and cabinets. It waspainted for several reasons. An assortment of poor quality was often used woods. Plus, color is a hidden multitude of sins - the knots, coarse grain of the wood and the fact that different types of wood could be used on a single piece. Color of the wood and protected.

Where paint. It simply made no sense, furniture manufacturers, the insides of drawers and paint the underside of tables because they would see no one. So wasting the time to paint and why? You should be looking for color onhidden areas where you will find a piece of the assessment, because you'll often reproductions with paint on the inside of drawers, chair bottoms etc. It's a tip-off that you are looking for a reproduction could.

Does crazing mean it's old? Crazing (tiny cracks in the paint that occur over many years) can be artificially produced on new furniture. A tip-off is that new furniture will often be mad at the whole body and with the same consistency. Crazing on old furniture happens from the accidents of the regularUse - spills and exposure to heat, fire or smoke damage that occurs during the lifetime of furniture. There are two types of crazing: crazing to the paint or varnish. Over time paint becomes brittle and develops very little fine lines such as wood expands and contracts. A similar effect occurs in paint. Paint cracks as the wood expands and contracts and dirt fills into the tiny cracks. On reproductions, this look is achieved by painting fine dark lines to imitate dirt.

Is the color of old? OldColor is very hard and break into irregular pieces because it is very brittle. If you scrape it off with a knife trying, that happens in jagged pieces. New paint is soft. If it is scraped off with a knife, it happens in curls. New furniture with acrylic paints are water based, invented in the 1940s painted. Old furniture would be painted with milk or oil paints.

Natural wear and tear. Are the signs of wear make sense? A painted antique chair increases wear show at the endThe arms where the hands would naturally rest and rub the paint over her arm. If the wear caused by the play in line, it is likely that a reproduction was distressed to appear old. If there are grooves or dents, you should be untreated wood. Paint means of grooves or indentations that it has been painted over.

Construction details. Phillips screws, staples and fiberboard are tip-offs from reproductions, whether it is painted or not. What makes painted furnitureA unique feature is that this tip-offs can be hidden with paint. ) On antiques with large surfaces (tables, chests, cabinets, furniture makers used wide boards with an odd width. Reproductions use narrow boards with a uniform width.